Remote Indian Islands See Tsunami Destruction
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel talks with Geeta Pandey of the BBC about the devastation caused by the tsunami in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Powerful tsunamis that  devastated parts of southern Asia Sunday flooded low-lying  areas and triggered extreme tides along the east African coast,  3,728 miles away across the Indian Ocean.
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Russian-made twin-prop Indian air force planes droned in and out of Car Nicobar island Wednesday taking away survivors, some who had walked three days from isolated beach villages crushed by the devastating tsunami with waves as big as "aircraft hangars."
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What may be the strongest earthquake in 40 years has struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Sunday, 7 am local, sparking deadly tsunami waves that have impacted as far away as India.
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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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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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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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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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The destructive force of the recent tsunami is evident along coastlines throughout the Indian Ocean. But what was the impact on life beneath the waves?
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HAFUN, Somalia -- In this remote, northeastern corner of Somalia, villagers have long believed the world will end when the sea runs dry and the ground shakes. When the tsunami struck Dec. 26, many thought that day had come.
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Five isolated tribes living on the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands appear to have survived the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, although another more numerous group suffered great loss of life, a British-based charity said.
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A tsunami drowned thousands in Sri Lanka, above. People were also forced to higher ground in India, Indonesia and the Thai island of Phuket.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A lone tsunami survivor has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said yesterday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean as nations pledged to try to stop such a disaster from happening again.
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India&#39;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
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Rescuers have begun reaching India&#39;s remote Andaman and Nicobar islands to find barely a third of residents on one isle still alive two days after a devastating tsunami.
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Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.