India, hit hard by Asia's tsunami last year, will have a warning system ready by September 2007 to protect its eastern and western coasts from killer waves, officials said on Monday. Over 9,200 people died in India and more than 3,000 are missing after the December 26 tsunami slammed into India's coast and washed over its remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, triggered by a powerful undersea earthquake off Indonesia. "All important elements should be in position in one year and the warning system will be completely in place by September 2007," Harsh Gupta, the Secretary of the Department of Ocean Development, told a news conference.
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