Tribe climbed mountain to escape tsunami

The last few dozen remaining members of an ancient indigenous tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands said they raced up a mountain to escape a devastating tsunami – and avoid extinction.

Tribe climbed mountain to escape tsunami

The last few dozen remaining members of an ancient indigenous tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands said they raced up a mountain to escape a devastating tsunami – and avoid extinction.

“No one was hurt. Everyone is all right,” Jiroki, the king of the Great Andamanese tribe, said yesterday from a hospital in Port Blair, the capital of India’s federally administered territories.

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