TRUNAMI STRIKES SOLOMON ISLANDS !

At least 10 people have died in the Solomon Islands after a tsunami swept ashore following a strong undersea earthquake in the South Pacific.
The main town in the western Solomons, Gizo, was hit by waves several metres high that swamped buildings and washed people out to sea, officials said.
Local officials fear the numbers of dead could rise, with reports of outlying villages being destroyed.
The quake measured 8.0 and hit at 0740 local time on Monday (2040 GMT Sunday).
A tsunami warning for the Pacific from Australia to Alaska was issued but later cancelled.
The National Disaster Council chairman told reporters that some villages had been "completely wiped out".
It struck 345km (215 miles) north-west of the Solomon Islands' capital Honiara, north-east of Australia, the US Geological Survey said, at a depth of 10km (six miles) below the surface.
Evacuation
Gizo was only 45km (25 miles) from the epicentre of the quake.
There was 10ft of water rushing through town
Harry WickhamHotel worker, Gizo

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"There wasn't any warning - the warning was the earth tremors," said Western Province's Premier Alex Lokopio.
"It shook us very, very strongly and we were frightened, and all of a sudden the sea was rising up," he told Radio New Zealand.
He said the water "moved toward the island and hit all the houses on the coastal area, and all of their property was washed away to the open sea."
Gizo resident Judith Kennedy said "a lot of houses have collapsed. The whole town is still shaking," she told the Associated Press several hours after the earthquake struck.
Harry Wickham, a hotel worker in Gizo, told New Zealand television that "there was 10ft of water rushing through town".
There are reports that a local hospital has been inundated by water and at least three people are confirmed dead in the town.
Remote islands
Britain's deputy high commissioner in Honiara told the BBC that four people were also missing from Mono Island.
The Solomon Islands has a population of about 500,000 people - some of them living on remote islands.
"Those western islands are very scattered and it's very difficult for us to get there or communicate, but we are sending a team to investigate," said the Solomon Islands government spokesman Alfred Maesulia.
The earthquake was also felt in the capital, Honiara. David Leeming, who lives in the city, told the BBC News website that his five-storey office building shook and staff left the building for safety.
Residents of the Papua New Guinea port city of Rabaul reported seeing the sea recede down the beach, followed by high waves, but no damage was reported.

BBC NEWS REPORT.