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.