At Least 5,000 Dead in India's Andaman Islands --PTI
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Indian police say at least 5,000  people are believed to have been killed by the weekend tsunami  that struck the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, the Press  Trust (PTI) of India reported on Tuesday.
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Thousands of bodies lay rotting and unidentified on lawns and streets of battered Sumatra island Wednesday and authorities called out bulldozers to dig mass graves, as the number killed in a mammoth earthquake and tsunami soared above 55,000 with tens of thousands still missing. The U.N. health agency warned that disease could double the toll yet again.
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PORT BLAIR, India: Rescuers were anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar islands today.
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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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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  up to 3,000 people.
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India's refusal to allow access to the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is preventing aid from reaching the most desperate survivors of last week's tsunamis, international aid groups said Monday, as the country's death toll was expected to top 15,000.
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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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They struggled to bury the dead and desperate residents looted shops on Indonesiaâs Sumatra Island today, where the earthquake and tsunamis killed up to 25,000 people, according to government estimates.
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The official death toll in India from a massive tsunami that crashed into coastal communities has reached 8,955 while 3,874 more people were missing and presumed dead, the government said.
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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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Sri Lanka's worst tsunami in living memory has killed 2,498 people and affected over one million more, or around 5 percent of the Indian Ocean island's population, the government said on Sunday.
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As more and more bodies are being swept ashore, the death toll due to Sundayâs tsunami waves is rising fast along the south-eastern coast and the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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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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NEW DELHI -- India's government again put aside private aid groups' urgent requests yesterday to help tsunami survivors on the devastated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, saying a decision would be made after five days.
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On the third day after the tsunami hit the Andamans, Nicobar island is still inaccessible. Telecommunication links are down and there are no ships ferrying between Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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Rescuers in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar isles are struggling to assess the tsunami toll in areas untouched by the modern world.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz yesterday wrapped up a visit to Indonesia, where officials along the obliterated Sumatran coast reported finding 5,000 more bodies, raising the death toll in one of the world's worst natural disasters to more than 162,000.