Stabbing victim in Samoa fights for her life

A 27-year-old woman, who is fighting for her life at the Moto’otua Hospital after she was stabbed last Saturday morning, is lucky to be alive.Found “with no clothes” and “screaming hysterically,” she had lost a lot of blood from multiple stab wounds to her body and her face. Yesterday, Fa’aolataga Malaki, from Togafuafua, relived the horror when he spoke to the Samoa Observer about the incident. “There were cuts all over her face,” he said. “She also had tooth marks on her arms and a big cut across her chest.\“She kept on crying hysterically.\“Through her pain, she was trying to ask us who hurt her. However, her wounds were so deep and she was in so much pain.”Mr Malaki said he was among the first people to reach the woman.“We helped take her to the hospital,” he said. “We were on our way to the hospital when all she managed to say to us was that she was raped.\“That’s all she said to us on the way to the hospital.”Mr Malaki said the woman was attacked by one person