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‘We couldn’t find their bodies’: Indonesian tsunami survivors mourn the dead

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia’s Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the area two decades ago.It is one of several prayer sites across western Indonesia — including a grand mosque and other mass graves — holding ceremonies that drew thousands of mourners who remember the December 26, 2004, tsunami.