7 Aug 2018

Tourist missing at Samoa's To Sua trench

9:21 am on 7 August 2018

Samoan emergency services have been searching since Sunday for the body of a Chinese tourist believed to have been swept out to sea at the To Sua ocean trench.

The To Sua ocean trench

The To Sua ocean trench Photo: 123RF

The operation stopped at night fall on Sunday but continued yesterday.

In April last year a New Zealand naval sailor also went missing while visiting the To Sua trench.

Twenty-four-year-old Kiligo Joseph Lemafo'e Tua dissapeared last April, a day after he arrived at Leauvaa village to visit family.