Island’s population decimated

ABOUT 1,000 people died when tidal waves crashed over an isolated island in India’s Andaman chain where many thousands more are feared to have died, a coastguard official said.

Wed, 29 Dec, 2004 - 00:00

“We have only 500 survivors on Chowra, the rest were totally washed away,” the senior official said.

The deaths pushed the toll on the Andamans to at least 4,000.

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