APIA, Samoa (Agence France-Presse): The number of deaths confirmed since the devastating tsunami that crashed in the Islands Samoa and Tonga has increased to 164, with at least 16 people are still missing, Government of Samoa, officials said Friday.
There were 123 killed in Samoa, American Samoa 32 and 9 on a nearby island in Tonga.
An undersea earthquake of magnitude 8.0 which struck just before 7 a.m. Tuesday prompted the tsunami survivors said waves as high as 30 feet.
Vaosa Epa, a spokesperson for the Government of Samoa, said that doctors in the main hospital in Apia had been addressed to more than 300 people for injuries and almost 50 had been commissioned by Friday.
Togiola Tulafono, the Governor of American Samoa, said the majority of search operations and rescue was stopped and was to stabilize the situation, according to an official American aid who spoke with the Governor.
«More articles in world» a version of this article appeared on 3 October 2009, printed on page A6 of the New York Edition.
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