Nine men, women, teenagers rescued 38 days after tsunami on remote Indian island
Published: February 3, 2005
Thirty-eight days after the tsunami, nine tribal men, women and teenagers have been found alive on a remote Indian island.
Those rescued range in age from eleven to 65 years.
An officer says the nine spent days wandering across villages flattened by the tsunami. They apparently climbed on to a hill when the tsunami came, and just kept walking.
The discovery was made in in India’s remotest Campbell Bay island.
The nine people are from the Nicobarese tribe. The include five males, two women and two teenage girls.
The head of a police team says the survivors just ran toward them without saying anything.
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