Tonga volcano: first pictures after eruption show islands blanketed in ash, as two deaths confirmed

Pictures from a New Zealand defence force surveillance flight and UN satellite images show land and trees coated in ash Some of the first images have emerged from Tonga's volcano and tsunami-hit islands, after a New Zealand defence force surveillance flight returned from the cut-off country, as two deaths from the disaster have been confirmed. Aerial photography of Nomuka, a small island in the southern part of the Ha apai group, shows land and trees coated with ash and other damage inflicted by...