Taitasi Fitiao was holding her six-year-old daughter's hand when a tsunami wave damaged onto their coastal village in American Samoa.
"I held her hand. The wave got us and that's when her hand just left mine and I could hear her say, 'Mom, please.' And then I saw her, I saw her floating away. And I know right then that she was gone, she was taken from us."
Taitasi Fitiao ran to her daughter's school after an 8.scale earthquake rocked the small cluster of Samoan islands early Tuesday, triggering a tsunami.
The teacher had let the students go home after the temblor struck. Fitiao had felt some relief when she briefly united with her daughter, but then the wave came.
"I can't think she's gone. She's only six years old," she said of her youngest child, Valjorefa Uputaua Fitiao.
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"I held her hand. The wave got us and that's when her hand just left mine and I could hear her say, 'Mom, please.' And then I saw her, I saw her floating away. And I know right then that she was gone, she was taken from us."
Taitasi Fitiao ran to her daughter's school after an 8.scale earthquake rocked the small cluster of Samoan islands early Tuesday, triggering a tsunami.
The teacher had let the students go home after the temblor struck. Fitiao had felt some relief when she briefly united with her daughter, but then the wave came.
"I can't think she's gone. She's only six years old," she said of her youngest child, Valjorefa Uputaua Fitiao.
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