Indonesians drill for disaster before tsunami anniversary
The Peninsula
Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Hundreds of Indonesians fled for higher ground Wednesday as they ran through disaster drills in the region worst hit by the 200...
Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Hundreds of Indonesians fled for higher ground Wednesday as they ran through disaster drills in the region worst hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ahead of its 20th anniversary next month.
Children burst down the stairs in a rush for safety from the second floor of a school near Aceh's provincial capital Banda Aceh, where more than 60,000 were killed in the tsunami.
As school bells rang out, dozens of children ran into the road covering their heads, following marked escape routes as volunteers shouted "evacuate".
"With exercises, we can prevent, rather than cure," said 34-year-old participant and local village official Rizky Firmansyah.
"It's better like that I think, because it's better for us to anticipate than to have things that we don't want to happen."
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