Fate of many Andaman islanders unknown
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Rescuers are anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar islands, as the nationwide death toll from weekend tidal waves reached nearly 7,000.
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The island of Car Nicobar has been devastated by the tsunami, with around half its population unaccounted for, as the BBC's Jonathan Charles discovered.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Airborne military patrols scoured inaccessible sections of Sumatra island yesterday and discovered that swaths of land were inundated and roads, villages, and bridges had vanished. After helicopter flyovers, rescuers estimated more than 80,000 deaths in the region and described the scene as catastrophic.
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Fighting to survive without water or food since the tsunami, villagers on a remote southern Indian archipelago forbidden to outsiders are starving and desperate for humanitarian aid, survivors and officials said yesterday.
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Of all the low-lying coastal areas to be devastated by Sunday&#39;s tsunami, an Indian archipelago near the quake&#39;s epicenter may turn out to have the worst toll per capita.
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India's dwindling aboriginal population in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is safe as most lived in jungles, far away from the coast hit by a devastating tsunami, a coast guard official said on Thursday.
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Details have begun to emerge about Britons killed, or missing presumed dead, as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunami. A total of 26 Britons have been confirmed dead, but this figure is set to rise.
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According to a top official of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, &#39;we will consider ourselves lucky if the final death toll remains confined to 5,000&#39;.
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Aftershocks continued to rattle the Andaman and Nicobar islands far off India&#39;s eastern coast, as authorities rushed drinking water, food and medicines to thousands of survivors of massive tidal waves that devoured at least
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Tsunami survivors on the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands told harrowing tales Thursday of going without food after fleeing mammoth waves that smashed their villages
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OTTAWA (CP) - There's no guarantee the fate of all Canadians missing in the Asian tsunami will ever be known, officials say, leaving many families in emotional and legal limbo.
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: An Indian archipelago was jolted Tuesday by aftershocks from the massive weekend quake, as emergency aid reached survivors of the tsunami waves that killed 4,413 people and left 8,000 missing, many of them probably dead.
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PORT BLAIR, India  - 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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Tsunami survivors in India's tropical Andaman Islands say looters have plundered their homes and robbed them of precious possessions.
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Survivors in the Andaman Islands accuse officials of underplaying the disaster and failing to hand out aid.
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An uprooted tree lies on the beach as damaged buildings of Indian Air Force officers, where more than 100 people reportedly were killed by tidal waves, is seen in background, in Nicobar, in India&#39;s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Wednesday, Dec.
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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.