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Reports this morning confirm eight dead in Monday’s(Samoa time) crash at Solosolo yesterday. New Zealand-based Samoans, who were visiting the tsunami-ravaged areas of Aleipata, came across the overturned bus soon after the accident. They helped to pull out the dead, and the living, who were trapped underneath the bus. One of those, a dead mother, still holding her living baby.

A 10 year old girl escaped alive but lost her arm. The bus driver fled the scene before police and ambulance arrived. The Lady Analofa was driving from Apia.

Listen to Radio NZ International Correspondent Tipi Autagavaia