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American Samoa relief efforts continue
03.10.2009 6:33   40 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: American, South, Arts, Rich, National, Pacific, Posted, Guard, Samoa, American Samoa, South Pacific


Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Rick Rycroft, AP A child plays in a debris filled drain near the beach at Vailoa village, Samoa on Friday, three days after a deadly tsunami rolled through several South Pacific island nations. By Derrick DePledge, The Honolulu Advertiser Leone, American Samoa — Capt. Aaron Blanchard led a Army National Guard team yesterday afternoon into a grove thickly layered with mud, muck and debris. Hawaii soldiers here are moving from search and rescue to recovery, but this team, with their picks and shovels, were looking for a young boy from this western village still missing from Tuesday's earthquake and tsunami. Two of his...

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Tsunamis uproot centuries-old Samoan cultures (AP)
03.10.2009 5:47   30 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: American, South, Rich, Pacific, Samoa, Samoan, South Pacific


Two women scavenge wooden boards from the beach at Vailoa village, Samoa, to reuse in temporary shelter Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, 3 days after a deadly tsunami rolled through several South Pacific island nations. An earthquake centered about 120 miles (193 kilometers) south of the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, triggered the tsunami early Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - The village of Leone is a picturesque enclave that has been a mainstay of the Samoas for centuries, a place where residents gather under beach meeting houses for rituals that are sacred to the local culture.


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Samoans bury dead as toll soars
03.10.2009 2:57   22 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: American, South, Some, Pacific, Moss, Samoa, American Samoa, South Pacific


ANGRY SEAS: The death toll so far from this week’s series of tsunamis is 150 in Samoa, 31 in American Samoa and nine in Tonga. Most are buried in unmarked beach graves Grieving Samoans buried their dead in unmarked beachside graves on Thursday as the gruesome task of recovering bodies from villages destroyed by four tsunamis continued and an aftershock shook the region. Some Samoans started rebuilding their South Pacific paradise, clearing debris from shattered homes, but others remained in nearby mountains, afraid to return to the coast for fear the ocean will again turn deadly. Leausa Letoa, his wife and four daughters refused to return home, preferring to camp under a blue tarpaulin in a...

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Military searches for bodies, brings aid to Samoas (AP)
02.10.2009 19:02   38 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: American, South, Pacific, New Zealand, Zealand, Samoa, American Samoa, Samoan, South Pacific, Military


A man searches through the rubble of a destroyed village outside Apia in Samoa on Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009. A powerful quake in the South Pacific hurled massive tsunami waves at the shores of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga flattening villages and sweeping cars and people back out to sea while leaving more than 100 dead and dozens missing. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Brett Phibbs)AP - The relief effort in the tsunami-stricken Samoas entered its fourth day Friday as medical teams gave tetanus shots and antibiotics to survivors with infected wounds and some frightened residents who fled to the hills after the disaster vowed never to return to their decimated seaside villages.


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Military searches for bodies, brings aid to Samoas (AP)
02.10.2009 15:35   28 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: American, South, Some, Pacific, New Zealand, Zealand, Samoa, American Samoa, Samoan, South Pacific, Military


A man searches through the rubble of a destroyed village outside Apia in Samoa on Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009. A powerful quake in the South Pacific hurled massive tsunami waves at the shores of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga flattening villages and sweeping cars and people back out to sea while leaving more than 100 dead and dozens missing. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Brett Phibbs)AP - Some frightened Samoans who fled to the hills as a tsunami tore through their seaside villages vowed never to return to the coastline, while aid workers delivered water and medicine amid the growing stench of decay.


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