First aid supplies have arrived in Tonga amid fears over contaminated water sources after volcano eruption
“I won’t say we are expecting more deaths but as we are speaking the government is trying to fly to the other islands to check over them,” she said.
The United Nations said that about 84,000 people, more than 80% of the population, had been badly affected by the disaster.
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