3,000 feared dead on remote Indian island

About 3,000 people may have died and a large number are missing and feared dead on the remote Car Nicobar island in the Bay of Bengal after Asia’s tidal wave disaster.

If the deaths are confirmed, it would dramatically raise India’s estimated 4,000 death toll, with the southern state of Tamil Nadu previously accounting for most casualties.

All the villages and the road along the coast on Car Nicobar island were washed away by the tidal wave, said the region’s police chief, SB Deol.

“We have reports that maybe 3,000 people are dead and a large number are missing and are feared to be dead,” he said.

Car Nicobar is part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a group of more than 500 islands in the Bay of Bengal.

They are located south of Burma, a915 miles east of the Indian mainland.

Less than 30 of them are inhabited.