The bodies of victims of a tsunami which hit the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh are seen December 27, 2004. Dead bodies littered the streets on Tuesday and fresh water, food and fuel were in short supply in Indonesia's Aceh province where it is feared as many as 10,000 people were killed by the tsunami.

An Acehnese woman walks past dead bodies in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh December 27, 2004. The United Nations warned of epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia can cope after more than 15,500 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.

A view of the damage near Baiturrahman mosque December 27, 2004 after a tsunami hit the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh on Sunday. The tsunami that crashed into coastlines across southern Asia is likely to present the United Nations with its biggest and costliest relief effort, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said on Monday. (Beawiharta/Reuters)