Field littered with bodies in Banda Aceh after the Tsunamis.(Photo: Xinhua)

The death toll in Sunday's earthquake which caused a massive tsunami has reached 3,000 around Banda Aceh, the capital city of the country's westernmost province,as rescue workers continue their efforts to find more victims on Monday.

The latest figure indicates that a total of victims in this country has reached 5,000.

The local authorities had decided to contribute a three hectare of land to bury the victims in a mass grave.

According to the official Antara news agency, at present the urgent situation in the field is lack of paramedics as well as medicines.

Due to its titanic and massive destruction, activities in BandaAceh were still halted and electricity and telephone lines were cut. The city was badly devastated, and the local Zainal Abidin hospital could not receive any of the quake victims because it had also been badly damaged and inundated.

Meanwhile, many parts of roads in Banda Aceh and some other towns were also damaged with the debris of collapsed buildings cluttering the sidewalks.

Because of continuing minor tremors following the powerful quake on Sunday, which is reportedly to have at least 60 aftershocks, many local people had sought refuge at the provincial assembly building and in tents around Banda Aceh.

Aceh Deputy Governor Azwar Abubakar reported that the available stocks of medicines and food in the province had run low while therice stock stood at only 400,000 tons.

In line with the government's arrangement, more food supply would be urgently sent from the neighboring Medan of North Sumatera.

The government, the visiting Vice President Jusuf Kalla said, has provided 50 billion rupiah (about some 5.6 million US dollars)in cash to help the victims.

As high as 10 meters tidal waves which followed an earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale centered in the ocean west of Aceh hit South and Southeast Asia on Sunday, killing at least 22,000 people in the region.