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Indian fishermen hit the road PORT BLAIR, India, Monday (Reuters) Indian fishermen still anxious about returning to the sea after the killer Indian Ocean tsunami have a safer alternative - hit the road. The tsunami has changed the landscape so much that on the outskirts of Port Blair, capital of the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, men are standing on now-flooded roads to cast their nets. "In my life, I could never imagine standing on a road and catching fish," says Aminul Islam, standing knee deep in a high tide on a road at Corbyn's Cove, a scenic beach area. "The tsunami has really changed things." Previously dry stretches of coast are now submerged at high tide, although no one seems entirely clear if the water has risen or the land has sunk, after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the nearby Indonesian island of Sumatra that triggered the tsunami. |
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