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Death Toll Climbs After Tsunami Hits Pacific Islands

Credit: AP Online

APIA, Samoa

A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific hurled a massive tsunami at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages and sweeping cars and people out to sea, leaving at least 99 dead and dozens missing.


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