article_snippet: The remote outer islands are not thought to have been as badly hit as the central areas and Vanuatu's capital Port Vila but radio and phone lines were still down last night.
article_snippet: The village, of about 200 people, consisted of little more than wooden huts with thatched roofs - and it was in one of these flimsy dwellings that historic signed photographs, personally sent to the tribe in the 1970s, were being held.
article_snippet: Rina George, who has relatives living on the hillside where the village is located, said: 'From what we have heard, everything has been smashed down.
article_snippet: Very little has been left.'
article_snippet: each other might not even have any idea how bad things are as the lines are all down. '