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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Death toll nears 150 as Samoa tsunami devastation revealed AFP - Friday, October 2 Send IM Story Print Death toll nears 150 as Samoa tsunami devastation revealed APIA (AFP) - – Rescuers reached scenes of stunning devastation on Wednesday after a killer tsunami obliterated Samoan island villages, killing at least 148 people and leaving scores more missing. As distraught relatives picked through the rubble of homes and tourist resorts destroyed by Tuesday's 8.0-magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami, aid workers were left breathless at the catastrophe. "The devastation was astronomical, worse than anything I have ever seen," said Peter Bendinelli, head of the non-profit group Caritas Samoa. The death toll is expected to rise dramatically after the Samoan islands' worst quake in nearly a century unleashed walls of water that pounded the coast, echoing Asia's deadly December 2004 tsunami. Survivors described seeing truckloads of bodies in Samoa, an idyllic Pacific holiday destination which counted 110 dead, and expected the toll to rise further as bodies are recovered from wrecked buildings and the sea. "It's not paradise any more -- it's hell on earth," one survivor told Australia's Sky News as the morgue at Apia's hospital was forced to use a refrigerated shipping container to help handle overflow bodies. Entire villages were laid to waste and the pristine white beaches that once wooed bathers were strewn with the mangled wreckage of buildings and cars as well as luggage, furniture and poignant personal items. "We lost everything," said Meleisea Sa, a village chief in the decimated fishing hamlet of Poutasi, as villagers searched for loved ones and personal possessions in the twisted ruins of their homes. "I must rebuild this, or I have nothing," he said as he salvaged parts of his ruined house near four generations of family graves completely destroyed by the waves. "I look at the water now and I am frightened," he told AFP. Chronology: Recent major quakes, tsunamis At least 31 were killed in neighbouring American Samoa and seven lost their lives whe n the tsunami hit Tonga, 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away. Looters roamed the devastated streets of the American Samoan capital Pago Pago in search of food and other items after 7.5 metre (25-foot) waves smashed homes and hurled cars into treetops. Raiders were targeting liquor and cigarettes and other saleable items, but "were mainly taking food, frozen chickens and things like that," said local journalist Aufage Fausia. Some 2,500 people were forced from their homes by the disaster and were being housed in relief shelters in the remote US outpost that President Barack Obama declared a major disaster zone. Two US disaster assistance teams had arrived in American Samoa and were providing critically needed aid including emergency power and medical supplies, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chief Craig Fugate said. Witness account: Pamela Stephenson "We have over 140 people on the ground... coordinating and supporting the government's emergency response," Fugate told reporters on a conference call. He said they had begun distributing food and water and other emergency aid. As aid planes also arrived in Samoa from Australia and New Zealand, rescuers bringing food, clothing, medicine and fresh drinking water to survivors saw the full extent of the catastrophe. Australian planes carrying search-and-rescue, medical experts and other items flew into the Samoan capital, Apia, to join the search for residents and tourists and help treat the waves of injured. But getting enough aid to thousands of desperate survivors in such a remote spot is a tough challenge for rescuers, who warned it could take until "well into the weekend" to help everyone left homeless, hungry and thirsty. As emergency supplies arrived in the worst hit areas, villagers chanced across the body of a missing woman and her baby granddaughter dumped in a bush by the water's terrifying force. The devastated southern area of Samoa is home to about 70 villages and was also a popular tourist hot spot. Four Australians, two Koreans, one New Zealander and a British toddler were among the dead. Tonga reported significant damage on the small island of Niuatoputapu with at least seven dead and three missing. However, other countries saw only large waves at worst despite a brief, Pacific-wide tsunami warning. 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