Payabedi – Around a hundred angry and mostly female Indonesian flood victims Thursday looted an aid distribution post, complaining they had not received any food supplies.

The mob of mostly mothers carrying their children stormed the government-managed aid post in Aceh Tamiang, the district worst-hit by the floods which have inundated northern Sumatra over the past week.

Finding no food, the angry women seized what ever came to hand and made off with plastic buckets and cooking utensils.

"Whover took our food will be damned! It is OK for me not to eat but not my child," shouted young mother Saijah carrying her three-year-old son.

After the incident, around 20 police were dispatched to secure the post. Aceh Tamiang district secretary Marzuki said the incident should not have happened and argued the "distribution system has been quite good".

Food and other aid is distributed along a chain from district level down to local neighbourhoods, rather than given to individuals.

A massive relief effort is underway to provide food, water and shelter to victims of the floods, which killed more than 100 people and forced 400,000 to flee.

Aceh Tamiang district was the worst hit, with nearly the whole population of 239,000 evacuated, according to official figures. Some 44 people were killed and 205 are still missing.