BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNN) -- The death toll from Sunday's tsunamis has jumped sharply to more than 116,000 after Indonesia reported nearly 80,000 people were killed in that country alone.
U.N. relief workers arrived in Indonesia's Aceh province Thursday to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned the killer tsunamis.
Emergency workers reported that in some parts of Aceh, as many as one in every four citizens was dead.
Scenes of destruction -- homes and businesses flattened, buses tossed about like toys, piles of rubble filling the streets -- were repeated across the region, as were the scenes of grief -- residents and vacationers searching in vain for loved ones, or, at times, finding them in makeshift morgues.
Aceh province, nearly inaccessible in the best of times because of its remoteness and the presence for years of an armed insurgency, was even more cut off after Sunday's disaster.
The events began just before 7 a.m. (midnight GMT Saturday) when a massive earthquake -- at 9.0, the strongest in the world since 1964 -- struck just 160 kilometers (100 miles) off Aceh's coast.
The tsunami swamped shores, villages, the jungle and Aceh's capital, Banda Aceh, which was almost completely destroyed.
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