They are the latest victims of a riot targeting Indonesia's ethnic Chinese minority. At the beachfront Samudra Hotel on the edge of town, more than 150 ethnic Chinese are in hiding and do not dare to return to the town that suffered two days of chaotic rioting principally targeted against ethnic Chinese-owned shops and property.
Families sleep eight to a room.
Everyone is keen for news of the town. Dozen of other Chinese sleep on makeshift beds in the local military command. Some families fled to Medan in their cars, others rented private buses. Muslim prayer mats were on every locally owned shopfront in the town, a centre of the offshore gas industry, in strongly Muslim Aceh. Dozens of youths helped in a clean-up operation yesterday, sweeping up broken glass, plastic bags, burned wood and tangled metal from shops.