Indian quake death toll moves towards 12,000

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.

Most of the victims whose fate remained unknown were on the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, which were hit by seven aftershocks of 4.4 to 5.5 magnitude overnight.