Tsunami sweeps through Tonga after Eruption 15th January 2022

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Stories of horror and despair are emerging from Tonga after a tsunami swept through the Pacific island nation.

Locals described waves crashing into their homes as they ate dinner, and one man had to carry his grandmother as they fled to the roof of their house.

Waves surged through coastal Tongan areas after Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai erupted around 5.30pm on Saturday, NZ time, following an earlier eruption on Friday that sent ash, steam and gas 20 kilometres into the air.

 ‘You could hear screams everywhere’

Mere Taufa said she was inside the house with her family, getting ready for dinner when they heard and felt the eruption.

“It was massive, the ground shook, our house was shaking. It came in waves, my younger brother thought bombs were exploding nearby,” Taufa said.

"My first instinct was to take cover under the table, I grabbed my little sister, and screamed at my parents and others in the house to do the same."

She said next thing they knew water had filled their home.

 “We just knew straight away it was a tsunami. Just water gushing into our home.”

She saw the walls of one of her neighbours’ homes collapsed, from her own window.

“You could just hear screams everywhere, people screaming for safety, for everyone to get to higher ground.”
Locals worried about what the night will bring..................

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Australia has become the fifth nation to issue a tsunami warning after an undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean caused havoc in Tonga.

The Bureau of Meteorology issued an urgent alert that dangerous waves will start to affect Australia from 9.45pm on Saturday.

A tsunami struck Tonga sending terrified residents fleeing for their lives as surging waves crashed into homes and volcanic ash rained down from the sky.

Locals were warned to get out of the water and move to higher ground from as far away as Fiji as homes in the small South Pacific nation were swept away by the rising torrent.
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