Aircraft carrying much-needed humanitarian supplies from Australia and New Zealand are on their way to tsunami-hit Tonga, as the South Pacific island finally made co.
(Reuters) - Aircraft carrying much-needed humanitarian supplies from Australia and New Zealand will arrive in tsunami-hit Tonga on Thursday, as the South Pacific island finally made contact with the rest of the world after being cut off for five days.
Aid agencies have warned that Tonga is facing imminent water and food shortages after crops and drinking sources were inundated with salt water and ash from the volcanic explosion and Tsunami.