Tonga Damage News Today

As governments and aid agencies around the world gathered themselves to respond to the plight of Tongans reeling from the devastating Hunga

A local journalist in Tonga speaks about a chaotic evacuation situation she was in after the devastating eruption of an undersea volcano and subsequent tsunami last weekend that caused severe damage to the small South Pacific nation.

'Scale of the devastation could be immense,' notes Red Cross member as communications are still down, leaving friends and family in the dark