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October 07, 2009 04:00:42 PM
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A team of Fiji engineers and medical personals are on standby waiting to be dispatched to tsunami ravaged parts of Samoa and neighbouring islands.
Fiji offered to assist its neighbours after the disaster struck last week and has yet to receive a response from the leaders of Samoa and Tonga. “We have our teams raring to go,” said Acting Fiji Prime Minister Ratu Epeli Ganilau. Meanwhile, search teams continue to comb the jumble of smashed houses and ripped foliage in their search for human remains following the tsunami which crashed into the South Pacific islands after an 8.3-magnitude earthquake. Eight people are reported missing in Samoa and another two in American Samoa. A total of 135 people are confirmed dead in Samoa, another 32 in American Samoa and nine in the northernmost islands of Tonga, according to media reports. * Get local and international rugby news & live updates/results on your phone. Txt VRUG to 333 now.
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