People laid flowers and offered prayers at mass graves scattered across the capital of Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh on Thursday, marking 20 years since the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that left more than 160,000 people dead in the province.The devastating waves, triggered by a magnitude-9.1 quake centered off the coast of Aceh in Sumatra Island, killed about 230,000 people in a dozen countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, and parts of Africa, according to estimates.At 8 a.m., around the time the quake struck on Dec. 26, 2004, sirens blared through…READ FULL ARTICLE
