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Disaster in Solomon Islands: Earthquake hits flood damaged Solomons
By Mathew Dearnaley
4:15 AM Saturday Apr 5, 2014
At least 7 dead, 30 missing and 10,000 homeless as torrential rain and huge waves batter main island
A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
The tremor, at a depth of 63km, hit at 10.40pm on Friday, some 30km west of the city of Kirakira...
...Meanwhile, at least seven have been killed in floods in the Solomon Islands, making it one of the Pacific's worst disasters of recent times.
About 30 people are believed to be missing, and there have been reports of children's bodies floating down the main river in the Solomons' capital of Honiara.
The floods, from a slow-moving tropical depression threatening last night to turn into a cyclone, have also left more than 10,000 people temporarily homeless in Honiara alone.
They are clustering in 16 evacuation centres in local schools on high ground in the city of 70,000 people, where the police have also been rounding up looters.
Aid workers fear outbreaks of diseases from polluted water...
Disaster in Solomon Islands: Earthquake hits flood damaged Solomons
By Mathew Dearnaley
4:15 AM Saturday Apr 5, 2014
At least 7 dead, 30 missing and 10,000 homeless as torrential rain and huge waves batter main island
A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
The tremor, at a depth of 63km, hit at 10.40pm on Friday, some 30km west of the city of Kirakira...
...Meanwhile, at least seven have been killed in floods in the Solomon Islands, making it one of the Pacific's worst disasters of recent times.
About 30 people are believed to be missing, and there have been reports of children's bodies floating down the main river in the Solomons' capital of Honiara.
The floods, from a slow-moving tropical depression threatening last night to turn into a cyclone, have also left more than 10,000 people temporarily homeless in Honiara alone.
They are clustering in 16 evacuation centres in local schools on high ground in the city of 70,000 people, where the police have also been rounding up looters.
Aid workers fear outbreaks of diseases from polluted water...
