In the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, gunfire broke out raising concern about the safety of hundreds of foreign aid working in the battered northern part of the country.
The gunfire, which was heard near the U.N. headquarters in the provincial capital before dawn on Sunday, woke aid workers who have poured into the city, but hurt no one.
The shooting, which some police blamed on rebels waging a separatist campaign in Aceh province, stresses the threat to scores of foreigners helping survivors of the December 26 tsunami.
Shots were fired at officers guarding the home of the deputy police chief of Aceh, the northernmost province on Sumatra, police and officials at the nearby U.N. office told <i>The AP</i>. The U.N. building was not targeted, officials said.
A spokesman for the U.N.'s World Food Program, Mike Huggins, told the news agency that the world body was not treating the shooting as a security threat and said it wasn't clear if the rebels were involved.
