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Five dead, three injured in Solomons quake: hospital

HONIARA: At least five people were killed, including a child, and three more were injured when a 8.0 magnitude earthqu
Published February 6, 2013

solomon quake 400HONIARA: At least five people were killed, including a child, and three more were injured when a 8.0 magnitude earthquake jolted the Solomon Islands Wednesday, hospital officials said.

"We can report five dead and three injured. One of the dead was a male child, three were elderly women and one an elderly man," Chris Rogers, a registered nurse at Lata Hospital in the Santa Cruz Islands, told AFP.

 

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013

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