Worshippers in India’s remote Andaman islands are rushing for a glimpse of a picture of Jesus Christ amid reports that it was oozing blood, witnesses said on Wednesday. Thousands of people, mostly Christians, mobbed the home of a bishop in Port Blair, capital of the Indian Ocean chain, to pray before the framed print.
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/ 23 December 2006
A 6,1-magnitude earthquake struck India’s Andaman islands on Saturday, prompting residents fearful of a repeat of the deadly 2004 tsunami to flee their homes, geologists and witnesses said. The earthquake occurred at 7.50pm GMT on Friday, about 115km south-southwest of the local capital, Port Blair.
A surge in job-seekers sailing to the Andamans for a slice of the post-tsunami aid pie could alter the archipelago’s demography and further squeeze its indigenous peoples, experts warn. Environmentalists are also urging large relief agencies to pack up and leave the palm-fringed Andamans, arguing they are doing more harm than good to the islanders.
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/ 26 December 2005
Housing being provided by India in the tsunami-battered Andamans is ”totally unsuitable”, a United Nations expert said, while thousands of survivors crammed into tin shacks begged for proper housing a year after the disaster. Miloon Kothari, the UN’s special rapporteur on adequate housing, criticised living conditions in the archipelago.
After yet another huge earthquake and a tsunami scare overnight, some residents of India’s battered Andaman and Nicobar islands say they have had enough and are planning to move. On Sunday, an earthquake that the United States Geological Survey said measured seven on the Richter scale shattered the tranquillity of residents.