{"id":40775,"date":"2022-01-18T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/tonga-volcano-first-pictures-after-eruption-show-islands-blanketed-in-ash-as-two-deaths-confirmed"},"modified":"2022-01-18T22:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T13:54:31","slug":"tonga-volcano-first-pictures-after-eruption-show-islands-blanketed-in-ash-as-two-deaths-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40775","title":{"rendered":"Tonga volcano: islands covered in ash as three deaths confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures from New Zealand defence force surveillance flight and UN satellite images show land and trees coated in ash<\/p>\n<p>Some of the first images have emerged from Tonga\u2019s volcano and tsunami-hit islands, after a New Zealand defence force surveillance flight returned from the cut-off country, as three deaths from the disaster have been confirmed in Tonga.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial photography of Nomuka, a small island in the southern part of the Ha\u02bbapai group, shows<strong> <\/strong>land and trees coated with ash and other damage inflicted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/tonga-volcano-eruption-and-tsunami-leaves-trail-of-flood-damage\">huge undersea volcanic eruption<\/a> and tsunami that hit the Pacific nation on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/tonga-volcano-first-pictures-after-eruption-show-islands-blanketed-in-ash-as-two-deaths-confirmed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures from New Zealand defence force surveillance flight and UN satellite images show land and trees coated in ashSome of the first images have emerged from Tonga\u2019s volcano and tsunami-hit islands, after a New Zealand defence force surveillance flig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,874,280,2489,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-tonga","category-tonga-volcano","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40805,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40775\/revisions\/40805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}