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.

A Japanese tanker may have spilled more than 4,500 tons (31,500 barrels) of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean near the Nicobar islands following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker’s operator announced today.