SYDNEY/WELLINGTON - Significant damage was reported along the western coast of Tonga's main island on Tuesday followingbut a closed airport and downed communications are hampering international relief efforts.
A thick layer of ash blanketed the entire island, the High Commission said, adding it was working to establish communications with smaller islands"as a matter of priority". "We don't have any further information that would suggest... significant casualties, although, as you would appreciate, information is still relatively patchy," Australia's Minister for the Pacific Zed Seselja told Nine's Today show on Tuesday.
"Further volcanic activity cannot be ruled out," OCHA said, reporting only minor injuries but emphasising that formal assessments, especially of the outer islands, had yet to be determined.
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