Aid Flows to Tsunami-Hit Samoas; Death Toll at 120

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APIA, Samoa -- Police in green reflective vests searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of an earthquake and tsunami that killed 119 in the South Pacific.

Military transports flew medical personnel, food, water and medicine to the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, which were devastated by the wall of water triggered by Tuesday morning's undersea earthquake. One cargo plane from New Zealand brought in a temporary morgue and a body identification team -- with officials expecting the death toll to rise as more areas are searched.

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Aid Flows to Tsunami-Hit Samoas; Death Toll at 120

Cars and boats -- many battered and upside down -- littered the coastline. Debris as small as a spoon and as large as a piece of masonry weighing several tons were strewn in the mud.

Survivors told harrowing tales of encoun...

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