Amid growing concern over the escalating schools violence in Nuku‘alofa, Tonga Police beefed up their patrols around the seafront bus station and CBD today following yesterday's street fight and the arrest of two men.
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Thursday 6 March 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 40-year-old man died early yesterday morning Wednesday March 5 after falling overboard during a boat collision at Nafanua Wharf in ‘Eua. Another man remains in hospital for minor injuries.
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Thursday 6 March 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Four people were injured in a two car collision, at Pahu this morning. A car went through the block wall of a property and another vehicle hit a telephone pole in the crash on the corner of Railway Road and Hala Holomui.
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Monday 3 March 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga Police want to talk to a tattooed man who was wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, and another man with a black sleeveless t-shirt and a black cap, who were seen in the By-Pass Road, Halaleva area of Nuku'alofa, on Thursday, February 20, around 9:00am -1:00pm, on the day of a brutal homicide.
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Friday 28 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Police allege that a 20-year-old male intruder was stabbed three times by a woman after breaking into her Tatakamotonga home and attempting to indecently assault her.
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Friday 28 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
No arrest has been made in relation to the death of Dao Zin He (31), the Chinese shopkeeper who died in a suspected homicide a week ago, on February 21.
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Thursday 27 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 67-year-old man from Tatakamotonga, found dead at a tax allotment on Tuesday, February 25, is reported to have suffered a heart attack.
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Tuesday 25 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two men have been arrested and charged with murder in relation to a Chinese man, Mr Yi (44), who was found dead in his electronics shop on Railway Road, in June 2012.
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Monday 24 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Police have identified Dao Jin He (31) a Chinese national, as the victim of a suspected homicide in Tonga last week. He is alleged to have sustained head injury.
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Friday 21 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A homicide investigation is underway in Nuku’alofa after a male shopkeeper, a Chinese national, died this morning at Vaiola Hospital after he was found unconscious in his shop at Halaleva last night.
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Wednesday 19 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A couple has been charged with manslaughter by negligence over the death of their six-month-old baby boy on February 2 at Fangaloto. The baby is alleged to have been sick for three-days and died at home before the parents took him to Vaiola Hospital.
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Tuesday 18 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 17-year-old boy was arrested and charged with four counts of carnal knowledge, unlawful imprisonment, assault and indecent assault of a 13-year-old girl at Houmakelikao.
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Monday 17 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 44-year-old male driver died early on Sunday morning, 16 February while driving his car along Hala Liku, ‘Utulau, Tongatapu.
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Monday 10 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Police seized 98 cannabis plants and seven .22 bullets in a raid on a Kolomotu'a tax allotment last week. A 51-year-old Kolomotu'a man has been charged with possession of cannabis and bullets.
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Sunday 9 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 61-year-old man from Afa has been charged with manslaughter by negligence after a 62-year-old cyclist died after he was allegedly hit by a vehicle on the evening of February 6 in Hoi, Tongatapu. It was the second road death in Tonga this year.
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Sunday 9 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga Police fleet of patol vehicles will be better managed with a new maintenance workshop that is to be constructed with a $192,174 (TOP) grant from the Government of Japan.
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Tuesday 4 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Counterfeit $50 and $10 pa'anga notes found in Tonga lack watermarks and security threads, the National Reserve Bank of Tonga warns.
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Monday 3 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Police are warning traders and the public to be aware and to look carefully at Tongan pa‘anga notes, after three counterfeit $50 pa'anga notes were discovered in Nuku‘alofa last week.
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Saturday 1 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Police have arrested and charged a 17-year-old man after 41 cannabis plants and seeds worth an estimated street value of around $10,000 pa’anga were seized from a tax allotment in Fua‘amotu this week.
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Monday 27 January 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 19-year-old woman who fell from the back of a van at Lapaha, was the first road death for 2014, and one of four accidental deaths in Tonga last week. Tonga Police also confirmed that two young girls had died in Tongatapu - one from drowning and one from serious injuries, while a diver in Ha'apai had died from decompression.
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