Aboriginal Onges get a boy
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200812291607.htm

Port Blair (PTI): Much to the cheers of Onges, an aboriginal tribe of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands with only 92 members, a boy was born to the
community at a hospital here, doctors saidon Monday.

"The infant, born on December 24 took the population of the stone-age
Onge tribe to 93," Ratan Chandra Kar, Deputy Director, Tribal Health
said adding the baby is healthy.

The mother, 31-year-old Tikoigagae, a resident of Dugong Creek who was
brought here for delivery, is also doing well, Kar said.

Coming two weeks after the death of 8 Onges after drinking spurious
hooch, the boy's birth has cheered the tiny population of the tribals,
who offered prayers at the sea shore for his good health.
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