Still suffering from the effects of a massive earthquake, authorities in western India today alerted the armed forces to prepare for a severe cyclone building up in the Arabian Sea.

A family of three survived for five days on a bottle of water and a few tomatoes while being trapped under their home after the Indian earthquake.

The death toll from the Indian earthquake is now said to be approaching 30,000 - and the final total could be much higher.

Some 13,000 people have been killed in an Indian state by an earthquake, an Indian minister says.