Nuku’alofa shooting

Tonga

One killed in Nuku’alofa shooting

A shoot-out in Nuku’alofa on December 7 has left one man dead and another in a critical condition at Vaiola Hospital.

The shoot-out occured at the Tonga Cooperative Society’s head office in the centre of town’

Although police had not released any information about the incident by the time PIM went to press, Radio Tonga said the man hospitalised is understood to have done the shooting. No reasons for the killing have been given and police are

investigating.

Dr Talia’uli Afeaki of Vaiola Hospital reported the person under their care was fighting for his life as his brain was badly damaged from a bullet wound. Reporters were not allowed to view the scene of the shoot-out nor get any information from the police.