Twenty-seven Indian Air Force personnel were killed and 75 to 100 are missing in Car Nicobar, one of the worst hit areas of Andaman and Nicobar Islands by Sunday's tsunami.
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Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Air Chief S Krishnaswamy visited the island on Tuesday.
Senior air force officials told Mukherjee that they planned to evacuate about a thousand people each day to Tamil Nadu and Port Blair.
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On Monday alone, the IAF evacuated about a thousand people, mostly labourers, to safer places.
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