Planes, ships head for devastated Tonga as aid operation ramps up

The first aid flights reached Tonga with more en route, five days after a devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami, as communities intent on clean-up operations awaited a ship with equipment to scale up supplies of much-needed drinking water.

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