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Coffins of tsunami victims at the national memorial service in Samoa - Source: ONE News -
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A national memorial service will be held to commemorate those who lost their lives when a tsunami hit Samoa and Tonga.
Hundreds were killed in the tsunami that followed a large earthquake in the Pacific on September 30.
Prime Minister John Key says the memorial service will be held in Auckland on November 8 to commemorate those who lost their lives.
"I would like to invite the families of the New Zealand victims and the wider New Zealand Pacific community to join me at this service."
"It is fitting that we remember the New Zealanders, Samoans and Tongans who lost their lives by way of a national memorial service," Key says.
The service will be held at the Auckland Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Parnell at 4pm.
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