Tsunami survivors are starving

Without water or food for six days after a tsunami, villagers on a remote southern archipelago are starving and desperate for relief to reach them, survivors and officials said today.

“There is nothing to eat there. There is no water. In a couple of days, people will start dying of hunger,” said Anup Ghatak, a utilities contractor from Campbell Bay island, as he was being evacuated to Port Blair, capital of the Indian island territory of Andaman and Nicobar.