
An Indian tourist inquires about his flight outside the Port Blair airport in Port Blair, capital of India’s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Monday, Dec. 27, 2004. More than 22,000 people are reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa’s eastern coast, most killed by massive tidal waves that smashed coastlines after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Indonesia’s coast on Sunday, followed by aftershocks in the region. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)