Tonga escapes worst of Cyclone Tino

Wellington (AFP) Jan 18, 2020

Severe Tropical Cyclone Tino "turned a large blind eye" on Tonga's main island of Tongatapu which escaped a direct hit, the head of the National Emergency Management Office said Sunday. There were no casualties reported throughout Tonga although the sparsely populated and remote islands in the north of the archipelago were reported to have suffered severe damage as the category three storm p