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First foreign aid flights arrive in Tonga
Publication date 20 January 2022 | 22:22 | ICT

The first humanitarian flights arrived in volcano and tsunami-stricken Tonga on January 20, five days after the dual disaster cut the Pacific kingdom off from the rest of the world.

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