Panic grips southern India over new tsunami warning

Authorities in southern India told residents in coastal areas to evacuate today, warning that there could be fresh tidal waves.

“We have issued an alert. There could be a wave attack in the next one hour,” said Veera Shanmuga Mani, the top administrator in Nagappattinam, a coastal town in southern Tamil Nadu state where most of the deaths from the weekend tsunamis occurred.