One five-minute phone call from a 'weird' number and Malakai Fekitoa's worst fears were allayed.
For 12 agonising days, the Wasps star attempted to contact loved ones back home in tsunami-hit Tonga, but could not get a dial tone.
An underwater volcanic eruption that had caused so much devastation in the Pacific Ocean had also cruelly cut off communications to his island of Ha'apai.
