Sovaleni's office said a 65-year-old woman on Mango and a 49-year-old man on Nomuka island had been killed, in addition to the British national whose body was found on Monday. A number of injuries ...

TONGA has suffered an “unprecedented disaster” with all homes on one island destroyed, the government has said. Chilling new pictures show the devastation caused when a volcano erupted, resulting in a ...

With communications badly hampered by the severing of an undersea cable, information on the scale of the devastation after Saturday's eruption had so far mostly come from reconnaissance aircraft All ...

A tsunami hit Tonga and destroyed communications after an underwater volcano erupted on Saturday. The government gave its first update on Tuesday, calling it an "unprecedented disaster." It said that ...

"There has been no contact from the Ha'apai Group of islands, and we are particularly concerned about two small low-lying islands — Mango and Fonoi — following surveillance flights confirming ...

Five days after the volcanic eruption, Tonga remains largely beyond contact with the outside world except for satellite phone services. Falling volcanic ash has contaminated local fresh water, which ...

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SYDNEY/WELLINGTON :All the homes on one of Tonga's small outer islands have been destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with three people so far confirmed dead, the government said on ...