Tsunami Anniversary: CNN’s Atika Shubert Says “It Was Impossible To Fathom”

On CNN Sunday Morning, Tony Harris asked correspondent Atika Shubert in Banda Aceh to recall what she saw when she arrived in the tsunami zone last year:

“It was absolute shock. Honestly, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. There was destruction everywhere, but worse was perhaps the fact that there were bodies everywhere. It was literally a city of death and destruction. The mosques behind me, for example, was standing — you couldn’t walk to the mosque without stepping on debris, without stepping over bodies. It was really a sight that was just too horrible to see. And the worst part was knowing that it wasn’t just the city, it had happened all up and down Aceh’s coast, more than about 250 kilometers or about 155 miles of this destruction up and down the coast. And really, it was impossible to fathom.”