The first aid flight arrived in Tonga after a five-day cut off due to eruption
by The Associated Press
Jan 20, 2022
2 minutes
BANGKOK — As the massive undersea Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Tongans from around the world gazed on as their relatives livestreamed images of billowing clouds of ash, gas and steam emerging from beneath the depths. Then darkness.The eruption severed Tonga's single fiber-optic cable, rendering the entire Pacific archipelago offline and unable to communicate with the rest of the world —
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