"...they had not eaten for two days & also had to fend off crocodiles..."

Sheeez.. somebody.. GIVE THESE PEOPLE A BREAK...


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Tsunami%20Surviving%20the%20Crocodiles

Thursday, December 30, 2004 · Last updated 6:49 p.m. PT

Quake survivors fend off starvation, crocs

By NEELESH MISRA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

PORT BLAIR, India -- First mammoth waves washed over their villages, leaving not a single hut standing. Then the survivors' ordeal began: days of thirst, hunger and miles of walking until - just at the point of rescue - a hungry pack of crocodiles tried to snap them up.

The refugees lived to tell the tale, thanks to Indian seamen who shot at the menacing crocodiles as the fleeing refugees made their way to a rescue ship."As we were returning, two or three crocodiles started coming toward us," Sister Charity, a 32-year-old nun, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "The Navy officers had to fire their revolvers to ward off the crocodiles to protect us."

Sister Charity, who was rescued from Hut Bay island, was among survivors who told harrowing stories as they emerged from the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands.Crocodiles are common across Southeast Asia and the South Pacific and the animal flesh eaters are among the many dangers survivors are facing after Sunday's disaster. After a tsunami in Papua New Guinea several years ago crocodiles feasted on corpses scattered along the beaches.

In this remote spot in India, rescuers followed the stench to find rotting corpses in jungles on the 30 or so of the territory's 500 islands that are inhabited, officials said. Survivors brought to Port Blair, the territory's capital, said they had not eaten for two days and also had to fend off the crocodiles that were swept ashore by the huge waves. Mohammad Yusef, a 60-year-old fisherman from Tea Top village on Car Nicobar island, told AP his village was wiped out. "There's not a single hut which is standing," he said.


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Associated Press photographer Manish Swarup contributed to this report.

But yeah, they can use a break!

:cry:

What a nightmare.