Tongan man, 57, says he survived 27-hour swim after tsunami

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“I just floated, bashed around by the big waves that kept coming,” he said, adding that he just kept floating, and managed to swim about 5 miles to the main island of Tongatapu — only reaching safe ground at 10 p.m. on Sunday, or 27 hours later.

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