A couple from an Andaman tribe with just 100 members left have had a baby, sending their island hamlet into raptures and delighting anthropologists worried about the group’s extinction.
The Onge baby boy born earlier this week to Shri Santosh, 28, and Reetai, 26, is doing fine, officials in the Andamans’ welfare department said today.
“Both the mother and child are in good health. With the birth, the Onge population is now 101,” the department said.
That number has come as a big relief for Som Naidu, the director of tribal welfare. “The number had fallen to 94 in December 2009 when six Onge men died after consuming toxic chemicals mistaking them for hooch,” Naidu said from Port Blair. Full story...
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The Onge baby boy born earlier this week to Shri Santosh, 28, and Reetai, 26, is doing fine, officials in the Andamans’ welfare department said today.
“Both the mother and child are in good health. With the birth, the Onge population is now 101,” the department said.
That number has come as a big relief for Som Naidu, the director of tribal welfare. “The number had fallen to 94 in December 2009 when six Onge men died after consuming toxic chemicals mistaking them for hooch,” Naidu said from Port Blair. Full story...
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