At least 13 dead from tsunami
Thousands of residents camped out overnight on a hill above a devastated town in the western Solomon Islands after a tsunami washed away coastal villages, killing at least 13 people. The death toll was expected to rise.
A wall of water reportedly 30 feet high struck the island of Choiseul and swept a third of a mile inland, while smaller but still destructive waves surged ashore elsewhere.
Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported the first deaths in neighboring Papua New Guinea, where a family of five was said to have been washed away.
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