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Kirsty Needham and Praveen Menon

All homes on one of Tonga's islands destroyed, three dead

View of tsunami damage after the Pacific island nation was hit after a massive undersea volcanic eruption in Nuku Port, Tongatapu Island, Tonga, released January 18, 2022, in this reconnaissance photo taken from a Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft surveillance flight. Australian Department of Defence/Handout via REUTERS

All the homes on one of Tonga's small outer islands have been destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with three people so far confirmed dead, the government said on Tuesday in its first update since the disaster struck.

With communications badly hampered by the severing of an undersea cable information on the scale of the devastation after Saturday's eruption had so far mostly come from reconnaissance aircraft.

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