Eyewitness accounts of Tonga’s eruption emerge as relatives wait to hear from loved ones | ABC News

January 20, 2022 by News Desk

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When Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted, the blast was so deafening that fleeing families could only wave to their loved ones to run, according to some of the first witness accounts to emerge from the Pacific Island nation.
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