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Teenage boy clings to tree for todays

AFP, Port Blai
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A teenage boy clung to a tree for 10 days in India's remote Andaman islands chain without water or food after the tsunami before being plucked by a helicopter rescue crew, one of 17 survi-vorsfoundDiursday.
"I used to cry but after a few days tears would not come to my eyes. 1 had nothing to eat, no water to sip and there was no help," 14-year-old Murlitharan said in the Andamanese capital of Port Blair.
Murlitharan was flown from the devastated island of
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Car Nicobar by the Indian air force on Wednesday and met by the Andaman and Nicobar island's chief administrator Ram Kapse after a full day's rest.
" I did not know how to swim and so I clung to the tree for 10 days as sea waters did not recede from my village which is called Tapai Ming," the bruised teenager said.
Air force rescuers said Muriitharan finally toppled off the tree where he sheltered for 10 days and fell into the waters Tuesday but was saved by a tribal woman who looked after him until they amved.
Murlitharan's parents are hospitalised in the southern coastal Indian city of Madras after their evacuation earlier this week from Car Nicobar which bore the brunt of the tsunamiwaveson December26.
Licutinant General B.S. Thakur, leading a mammoth relief operation in the ravaged Andamans, said he was elated to rescue 17 survivors himself Thursday from the Katchal islands where more than 4,600 people are missing.
"When we landed in Katchal two boys of this group walked 16km through very difficult terrain and told us about the survivors stuck in slush and surrounded by sea waters in West Bay.
"We first called a recon helicopter and sent one of the boys as guides and after locating these 17 we used a heavy-lift helicopter to winch in each of the survivors on board. It was a very difficult task," Thakur said.
"If we had not taken one of the boys as guide we would never had found these people. The area is so devastated," hesaid.
"These people were stuck in the slush since December 26 and survived on coconuts and bananas but nowater. Itisamiracle,"hesaid.