Minutes-old-baby joins the rush after quake sparks tsunami panic
A Indian baby just a few minutes old joined hundreds of thousands of people fleeing low-lying areas on the Indian Ocean coast after warnings that a massive quake off Indonesia could spark a new tsunami disaster.
A village nurse in the Akkaraipettai fishing hamlet of Tamil Nadu, southern India, told reporters that people began to panic when they heard about the earthquake on television.
"I was in the midst of delivering a baby when the news came," nurse S. Ranjani said, adding that as soon as the baby boy was born, mother, child and medical staff headed for higher ground.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Akkaraipettai saw heavy damage in the December tsunamis, with over 2,000 people perishing in a four kilometre (two mile) stretch.
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