On January 4, the government announced that 901 people died and 6,010 were missing in the tsunami that hit Andaman and Nicobar islands on December 26. That cannot even be a half-truth. Samir Acharya, secretary of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, said that according to four Nicobarese tribal chiefs, around 10,000 people, a third of the island's population, had died in Car Nicobar.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/grim-truth
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/week-kochi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/andaman-islands
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/car-nicobar-island
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nicobar-islands
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tsunami
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/port-blair