Clean up efforts continue in Tonga as Australia, New Zealand prepare aid missions

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Clean up efforts continue in Tonga as Australia, New Zealand prepare aid missions
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Tongans are redoubling their efforts to clear ash off the runway of the Pacific nation's international airport to allow planes carrying aid from Australia and New Zealand to land.

Red Cross workers load supplies bound for affected communities in Tonga onto trucks from a warehouse in Brisbane.Two Royal Australian Air Force planes are ready to depart for Tonga as soon as conditions allow, with the flights waiting for ash to be removed from the Pacific nation's airport runway.

"I've been told it is human power that is sweeping clear the debris and the ash off the runway at the moment," he told the ABC. "You imagine Pacific Islands, the tropical nature of the place and the bright colour of the sands and beaches. It's all very grey and dull because of the ash that just blankets the entire land."

He said two Hercules aircraft were ready to go with humanitarian supplies and telecommunications equipment. Simon Griffiths, captain of the Aotearoa, said his ship was carrying 250,000 litres of water, along with other supplies, and had the capacity to produce another 70,000 litres a day. Maxar satellite imagery of the main port facilities in Tonga after the underwater volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami.New Zealand's foreign ministry says US cable company SubCom advises it will take up to a month to repair the damaged cable.

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