Pacific volcano: British woman reported missing after Tonga tsunami

Family and chums of a British girl living in Tonga hold acknowledged she is lacking after she used to be caught in Saturday’s tsunami.

In social media posts, they acknowledged Angela and James Glover had been hit by the 1.2m (4ft) waves, but simplest her husband used to be in a location to grasp on to a tree.

Searches continue for Angela, 50, who used to be swept away alongside alongside with her dogs.

Brighton-born Angela co-managed a tattoo parlour and ran a canine rescue centre in Tonga’s capital, Nuku’alofa.

Mrs Glover’s brother, Cut, confirmed to the BBC that she serene had no longer been been situated. He acknowledged he’s flying from his dwelling in Sydney, Australia to the UK to be with their mom in Hove in East Sussex.

One social media poster, who acknowledged the couple had been his aunt and uncle, acknowledged that Angela and James had gone dwelling to discover their dogs when the wave hit.

One other poster acknowledged she had spent Sunday morning with Angela’s mom, who had obtained a phone call in the early hours from James to mutter her daughter used to be lacking.

She acknowledged: “We are hoping and praying that amongst the devastation she is stumbled on.”

The tsunami used to be triggered by the eruption of an substantial underwater volcano on Saturday, which shall be heard more than a thousand miles away in Recent Zealand.

Relief organisations mutter up to 80,000 other folks on the islands would be tormented by the peril, but to this level no deaths had been reported.

Data stays scarce, on the assorted hand. Recent Zealand and Australia and sending surveillance flights to assess the extent of the inconvenience.

A offer at the UK’s International, Commonwealth and Style Office acknowledged it used to be assisting British nationals and their families following the tsunami in Tonga.

Angela previously worked in the selling commerce in London. Her social media profiles imply she grew up in Brighton sooner than starting put apart a brand unique lifestyles in the Pacific island nation around 2015.

Past media reports establish her because the vice-president of Tonga Animal Welfare Society, which used to be based in 2020 to offer not unique animal care in a nation that has no certified vets.