Stench of rotting flesh leads to island's bodies

Even as the people of the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands told harrowing tales of fending off starvation and hungry crocodiles thrown ashore by the towering tsunami, they vowed today to go back to their tiny islands and start all over again.

“We are broken, but this is not the end of life,” said George Aberdeen, whose village on the remote Car Nicobar island was washed away on Sunday. “We will rebuild our lives. It will be difficult – but the whole family will do it together.”