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08 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Emergency supplies, air ambulances arrive in cyclone-ravaged Niue

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WELLINGTON, Jan 8 (AFP) - Damage on cyclone-ravaged Niue is not as extensive as first believed but the situation remains serious, with the island's only hospital destroyed and many buildings flattened, officials said Thursday.

New Zealand Foreign Ministry spokesman Brad Tattersfield said at least 12 houses were destroyed and several others damaged, although many of the hurricane-proof housing built after previous cyclones survived intact.

National Radio reported that about 200 of the country's 1,500 population were now homeless, and Niue government

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07 Jan 2004

American Samoa + 4 others
Tiny Pacific island reels from worst cyclone in living memory

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— Agence France-Presse

by Chris Foley

WELLINGTON, Jan 7 (AFP) - Cyclone Heta packing winds of up to 300 kilometres (190 miles) an hour "virtually flattened" the main town in the tiny Pacific nation of Niue leaving at least one person dead, officials said Wednesday.

Locals described the storm carnage as the worst in living memory.

Although communications and electricity have been wiped out on the island, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs managed to contact their High Commissioner on the island, Sandra Lee, by satellite phone.

Ministry spokesman Brad Tattersfield

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