Nine Alive After Tsunami

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By ALEX PEAKE

NINE tsunami survivors have been found on a remote island after 38 DAYS.

They survived on coconuts and coconut juice.

Rescue workers found the five men, a woman and three children on Campbell Bay, one of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

Police chief Shaukat Ali said: “It is a miracle that they are alive.”

Since the tsunami hit the string of 550 islands, almost 2,000 people have been listed dead and 555 are missing.

A police spokesman on the Indian islands said the group — all members of an aboriginal tribe — had taken refuge on a hilltop when the waves crashed ashore.

Their crocodile-infested island is thick with mangroves and rescuers have still not searched all of it.

News of the rescue was met with scenes of joy in nearby Port Blair, whose leaders had sent the search team out.

Earlier this month tsunami victim Rizal Shahputra, 23, survived for eight days at sea on an uprooted tree.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005052444,00.html

[tuky]

fantastic, thats great news.