Tsunami-hit Tonga islands suffered extensive damage, more deaths feared

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Tonga's small outer islands suffered extensive damage from a massive volcanic eruption, with an entire village destroyed and many buildings missing, a Tongan diplomat said on Tuesday.

A combination of satellite images shows homes and buildings before the main eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on December 29, 2021 and the same area on January 18, 2022, in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Satellite Image ©2022 Maxar Technologies/ Handout via REUTERS

Tonga is expected to issue formal requests for aid soon but in the meantime New Zealand said two ships, HMNZS Wellington and HMNZS Aotearoa, had set off with water supplies, survey teams and a helicopter. Atata and Mango are between about 50 and 70 km from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, which sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean when it erupted with a blast heard 2,300 km away in New Zealand."It is very alarming to see the wave possibly went through Atata from one end to the other," said Tu’ihalangingie.

The U.N. humanitarian office said Tongan officials had said that clearing the runway was being done manually with the earliest opening on Wednesday. "The impact not just of the inundation, but of the extraordinary volume of ash which is covering everything, plus the communications issues, of course, makes this very difficult," Payne said.

 

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