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Searching for bodies amid the devastation
A salty smell hangs over the devastated Samoan village of Lalomanu as police teams pick their way through the debris looking for bodies.
A salty smell hangs over the devastated Samoan village of Lalomanu as police teams pick their way through the debris looking for bodies.
A team of Army medics is flying to Samoa to join a civilian medical team that left NZ late last night as the death toll from the tsunami rises.
Residents and visitors in Samoa describe the terror of knowing what would be next after a massive quake rocked the tiny island nation
Salamasina Taufua was basking in the sun yesterday watching her three young children playing on the sand when a tsunami swept all three away.
Nine New Zealanders are now confirmed injured, and one dead, in today's Samoan tsunami.
Horror stories are emerging in the aftermath of today's 8.3 magnitude quake and tsunami in Samoa.
At least one NZer is dead and three injured, amongst thousands affected by today's earthquake and tsunami in Samoa.
Reports of scores dead, cars thrown into the ocean and fish on the ground following this morning's magnitude 8.3 earthquake.
The Ministry of Civil Defence is warning people to continue to stay away from beaches even though a tsunami warning has been downgraded.
Reports of cars thrown into the ocean and fish on the ground following this morning's magnitude 8.3 earthquake.
Samoa's radical road switch has claimed its first casualty.
A woman accused of inflicting head injuries which nearly killed her son asked the child's grandmother for forgiveness, a court was told.
Samoan police will remain on alert for accidents today, the second day since the switch to driving on the left.
This morning I drove out of my house on the right hand side of the road, and returned on the left, in the same country, in the same car.
Samoans are bracing themselves for chaos today as motorists switch to driving on the left.
Samoa's Prime Minister has promised to reconsider the date of the controversial driving side switch.