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The owner of a resort in Samoa says she and her husband were nearly washed away by the tsunami that hit on Wednesday morning.
Wendy Booth says her Sea Breeze resort has been destroyed by the tsunami, which followed a huge undersea earthquake.
"The second wave hit and came up through the floor, pushed out the back door and threw us outside," she told Fairfax Radio Network.
"We managed to hang on to a handrail. My husband and I just hung on to each other and the handrail and then that one (wave) went but the suckout was tremendous," she said.
"The force of the wave took furniture through the roof. The furniture was pushed with the ferocity of the wave through the ceiling."
Another resort was also destroyed, TVNZ employee Tony Manson said.
"It's just written off," he told Fairfax Radio Network.
"The lagoon is awash with debris. I don't know how many are dead, I know people are down there retrieving bodies at the moment."
