Tardy tsumani relief sparks Aceh clash

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Tsunami survivors demanding houses and jobs have thrown stones at police in Aceh during a protest outside the government agency tasked with rebuilding the Indonesian province.

The fighting broke out on Wednesday after police used water cannons on hundreds of protesters who had blockaded the agency's headquarters in the provincial capital Banda Aceh since late Tuesday.

One person was hit by a flying stone and at least one police car was damaged.

The 2004 tsunami killed or left missing at least 216,000 people in 11 Indian Ocean nations, more than half of them in Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra island.

al Jazeera