While foreign survivors of Thailand’s tsunami disaster were put up in an international school complete with beds, television sets and internet connections, locals from a devastated fishing village slept outside, many without blankets, burning wood to keep warm and keep mosquitos at bay.

Authorities in southern India told residents in coastal areas to evacuate today, warning that there could be fresh tidal waves.

Paramedics today began vaccinating more than 65,000 refugees in the south of India as authorities rushed aid to survivors of the tsunami that killed at least 4,400 people in India and left 8,000 missing, many of them feared dead, officials said.

An Indian archipelago was jolted by aftershocks from the massive weekend quake today, as emergency aid reached survivors of the tsunamis that killed 4,413 people and left 8,000 missing -many of them probably dead.

A string of Indian islands were rattled by aftershocks today while emergency aid was rushed to survivors of the tsunami waves that killed at least 4,300 people along the nation’s south-eastern coast.