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Apia, SAMOA — Tragedy struck a family’s Christmas holiday tafaoga when a 20-year-old boy named Perez from Malie, did not emerge from making the jump into the popular plunge pool at Togitogiga Falls.
The Togitogiga multi-layered Waterfalls in O Le Pupu Pue National Park at Saleilua village is a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While families of the two victims who lost their lives Monday afternoon during the tragic accident in the passage between Auasi and Aunuu island mourn, police are now investigating the incident to find out what really happened as the alia boat left Auasi wharf.
Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two people lost their lives Monday afternoon during a tragic accident between Auasi and Aunuu island after an alia boat carrying about 20 passengers capsized in rough seas, according to reports received by Samoa News from people of Aunu’u.
The two victims were both men...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A coroner has been unable to determine how New Zealand man Hans Dalton came to drown in a Samoan prison six and a half years ago.
Mr Dalton - a 38-year-old psychiatric patient - had been holidaying with family when Cyclone Evan struck and he lost his medication.
He was put...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who drowned and died at Fatu ma Futi this past Monday, Presidents Day, has been identified as 57-year-old Simeona Taiivao from Pavaivai.
An eyewitness who spoke to Samoa News said Taiivao didn't make it, although CPR was performed, in an attempt to save his life....
Apia, SAMOA — Tragedy has struck the village of Luatuanu’u at the beginning of 2019 with a young man dead and the families keeping vigil, hoping the body of another young man who has been missing at sea since Thursday, is found.
The deceased man was among three men who went out for a “casual swim”...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tualauta Representative Vui Florence Saulo has written to the Director of Education expressing concern regarding the drowning at Pala Lagoon Swimming Pool, at the same time, the father of the young girl who drowned contradicts claims that DOE performed a traditional “...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The father of Tinian Makewijere Tuileto’a Toese broke his silence yesterday morning saying that he was hurt by some of the statements made by teachers from the Pava’ia’i Elementary School, regarding the tragic incident that led to the death of his daughter last week.
“My...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 8th grader from Pava’ia’i Elementary School who died last week Wednesday afternoon following a drowning accident at the Pala Lagoon Swimming Center, was described by her teacher and several students from her class as a loving, caring and humble person, during the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Turns out, the 8th grade Pava'ia'i Elementary School student who died Wednesday afternoon following a drowning accident at the Pala Lagoon Swimming Center was not escorted to meet the EMS unit by a DOE vehicle. Instead, according to an eyewitness, it was a truck...