Nearly 100 people are thought to have been killed and many others have been injured in the Samoan islands after a powerful earthquake triggered a series of tsunamis.<br /><br />The 8.3 magnitude quake hit between the islands of Samoa and American Samoa just before dawn local time.<br /><br />Witnesses reported seeing waves up to five or six metres high.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Azhar Sukri reports.