Samoan Observer: Another Body Found At Saleapaga
Posted: October 6, 2009 Filed under: Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, Environment, Noticeboard Tsunami, NZPacific, South Pacific Region | Tags: another body found salaepaga tsunami, appeal for salaepaga faofao beach fales, breaking news samoa, death toll samoa, lalomanu district hospital, pacific tsunami, salaeapaga, salaepaga, salaepaga tsunami, samoa, samoa observer, Samoan nationals death toll, search for bodies continues in samoa, unidentified body at salaepaga, upolu tsunami 4 CommentsStory from Samoan Observer today :
Saleapaga. Photo:Marieta Heidi Ilalio.
“This person has no head and it was hard to cope with the smell,” the policeman said.The police couldn’t identify this body saying he was decomposed. But they contacted all families at Saleapaga who still have missing people to come over at the hospital and try to identify the man.
Police were finding it hard to cope with the smell from the latest body found at Saleapaga yesterday.A policeman at the Lalomanu District Hospital said they found the body at a plantation at Saleapaga. The gruesome discovery brought then tsunami death toll to 129.
It’s not clear whether the mentioned death toll refers to Samoan nationals. Because it is not the combined death toll for all bodies found. If we take into account the death count from locals, that would be refer to the official count of bodies of Samoans found, possibly.
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Search for Bodies Continues on South Coast Upolu Samoa; Death Toll Rises
Posted: October 2, 2009 Filed under: Breaking News, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, Environment, Noticeboard Tsunami, NZPacific, Politics, South Pacific Region | Tags: breaking news tsunami samoa, death toll in samoa, earthquake, radio 531pi, samoa, search for bodies continues in samoa, tsunami 1 CommentI’m listening to Radio 531pi here in New Zealand to its Samoan correspondent reminding listeners that the search for bodies is continuing. There are still a lot of unknowns as to how many bodies, be they tourists, visitors or villagers, might be buried under sand or debris.
As tragic as this is, I’m not surprised to hear him say that fellow Samoans whose villages were not destroyed or damaged are going around visiting survivors and sharing their water and food and other basics. That’s the Samoan way.
Official death toll so far: 110
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