Tonga struggles with ash, psychological trauma after eruption and tsunami

SYDNEY - Families have stopped children playing outside as Tonga struggles to deal with ash and the psychological fallout of last week's volcanic eruption and tsunami, aid workers and residents said.

"Everyone is still struggling right now," said Mr Drew Havea, the vice-president of Tonga Red Cross. Because of the ash,"families are making sure their kids are not playing outside, that they are all indoors", he said. The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean and was heard some 2,300km away in New Zealand.

It had taken a week for many people to recover from the"pulsating, terrifying" sound of the eruption, she said.

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