TEMPERS flared over the sluggish pace of aid efforts in India’s remote and restricted Andamans and Nicobars yesterday as hundreds of bodies lay scattered around the islands a week after the tsunami struck.

Panic briefly spread through the streets of Madras after residents felt the shocks of an earthquake off the coast of the remote Andaman islands.

Rescuers followed the stench of death to find rotting bodies in jungles on India’s remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where thousands are believed to have died, while people fled their homes today amid warnings of possible new tsunamis following fresh quakes.