A Samoan New Zealander caught up in a chilling double homicide in Samoa had been in the island nation less than a day when he was killed.
The 69-year-old Hamilton man had just touched down in his motherland for a short holiday; with the intention of returning to New Zealand to spend Christmas with a daughter and her family in Christchurch.
But now the family is planning a funeral and speaking with authorities after their father and another man were killed in what local police have dubbed a "horrific'' double murder.
One of the New Zealand man's four daughters told the Herald their father was a Kiwi citizen who had worked and lived here for 41 years.
She and her sisters and their mother, in her 60s, are now in Samoa - called to formally identify their father.