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Gizo - 3 April 2007
1. Various aerials of destruction in Gizo
STORYLINE:
At least 28 people were killed in the Solomons and neighbouring Papua New Guinea after a tsunami hit the region on Monday 2nd April, officials said the toll was likely to rise further as a detailed aerial assessment was made of Gizo and surrounding villages where only scattered radio reports have been collected so far.
Survivors picked through ruined stores on Tuesday 3rd looking for drinking water and food in a Solomon Islands town devastated by the tsunami, as an international relief effort started to get underway.
Thousands of people in the town of Gizo in the South Pacific country's far west spent Monday night sleeping under tarpaulins or in the open on a hill behind the town following a massive undersea earthquake that sent tsunami waves crashing through the town.
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