Tempers flare at slow pace of rescue

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.

Local authorities said a local government officer was manhandled by people angry at not getting relief supplies in Campbell Bay, the main town in the southernmost island of Great Nicobar, where widespread devastation has been reported.

Police had to send reinforcements.