WELLINGTON: Four people survived a month adrift in the Pacific by eating coconuts and drinking rainwater in an ordeal that claimed the lives of eight of their companions, including a baby, reports said Wednesday.

The group, from Papua New Guinea's Bougainville province, are believed to have spent 32 days at sea.

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