India Still Trying to Measure Devastation on Isles
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CAR NICOBAR, India  - Rescuers in India's Andaman  and Nicobar isles struggled on Thursday to assess the toll from  this week's tsunami in areas untouched by the modern world but  said the destruction might not be as bad as feared.
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International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was &quot;unprecedented&quot; devastation wrought by tidal
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PORT BLAIR, India  - Rescuers began reaching  India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands on Tuesday, two days  after passage of a devastating tsunami, to find barely a third  of residents on one were still alive.
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Rescuers were anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands as the nationwide death toll from weekend tidal waves reached nearly 7,000.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  more closely to help victims of the worst natural disaster in  living memory and experts warned more carnage from the Indian  Ocean tsunami may be uncovered and the death toll will climb.
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Wellington, December 27: Sri Lanka cricket officials have put off until tomorrow a decision on whether its tour of New Zealand will continue following devastating tidal waves which killed more than 6,000 people in the island nation.
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Death tolls in Sri Lanka and India continue to rise, with an estimated 11,000 dead in the island state, and 6,000 dead in India. Of those deaths, 3,000 are thought to have occurred in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Hundreds are reported dead in Sri Lanka and many other countries are affected, from India to Indonesia. Readers of the BBC News website have been sending in their own experiences of the disaster.
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Sri Lankans trying to come to terms  with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the  actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented  scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an  ethnic war.
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Aftershocks rattled India&#39;s remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands Tuesday, as authorities rushed drinking water, food and medicines to thousands of survivors of massive tidal waves that devoured at least 4,000 people along the country&#39;s southeastern coast.
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Indian Ocean states from Indonesia to Sri Lanka scrambled on Tuesday to cope with the widespread devastation of a tsunami that killed over 23,000 people and could claim more lives through disease and privation.
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In India, where more than 12,400 people are thought to have died in Sunday&#39;s disaster, rescuers were still unable today to reach some of the islands affected by the tidal waves.
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Indian officials said on Tuesday at least 7,000 people were feared dead in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands after a tsunami hit at the weekend.
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Thousands of Andaman and Nicobar islanders are missing, feared killed by last week's deadly tsunami, but few bodies have been located so far, Indian officials on the remote archipelago said.
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Rescuers began reaching India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands yesterday to find barely a third of residents on one island were still alive two days after a devastating tsunami.
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Rescuers in the Andaman and Nicobar isles struggled on Thursday to assess the toll from this week's tsunami in areas untouched by the modern world but said the destruction might not be as bad as feared.
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India on Friday cut the official toll of dead and feared dead from this week&#39;s Indian Ocean tsunami to 10,736 from 13,268. The change was made after almost 3,000 people listed as feared dead in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands were accounted for.