Solomons quake victims reminisce of quake survival experience

Solomons quake victims reminisce of quake survival experience

GHIZO, Solomon Islands - Michael Teingoa (L), 53, owner of a shipping company in Ghizo, western Solomon Islands, and his son Bene (R), 29, talk to a Kyodo News reporter at a makeshift hospital in Ghizo on April 4, reminiscing how they managed to survive from the tsunami which hit the region on April 2 in the wake of a magnitude 8.1 earthquake.

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