An RAF plane has arrived in Vanuatu with vital supplies after the country was devastated by a tropical cyclone in the South Pacific.
Cyclone Pam ripped through the archipelago of islands last weekend, with winds of up to 155 mph and heavy rainfall destroying 90% of the buildings in the capital of Port Vila.
Up to 90% of housing in Vanuatu's capital city Port Vila has been "seriously damaged" by Cyclone Pam according to Oxfam Australia.
In a statement the aid organisation added that the number of dead following the storm, which officially stands at eight, is likely to rise when communication channels with remote islands are re-established.
Oxfam Country Director in Port Vila, Colin Collet van Rooyen, said: "This is likely to be one of the worst disasters ever seen in the Pacific.
"The scale of humanitarian need will be enormous and the proud people of Vanuatu are going to need a lot of help to rebuild their homes and their lives.
"Entire communities have been blown away."
CARE International Programme Manager, Charlie Damon, told APTN making contact with the outer island communities was essential.
An RAF plane carrying aid for people displaced after Cyclone Pam has arrived in Vanuatu after government pledges £2 million to help victims
Residents of an island that was directly in the path of Cyclone Pam are having to drink rainwater as they wait for aid supplies to arrive.
Aid agency Save the Children has said that up to 75,000 children in cyclone devastated Vanuatu could be in desperate need of food.