A Tongan school group involved in a fatal Christmas Eve bus crash near Gisborne have performed for the first time since two of their own died.
The brass band from Mailefihi Siuilikutapu College were in New Zealand to fundraise for their school when the bus they were in crashed through a barrier and down a bank near State Highway 2.
Of the 53 people on board, two people died - 11-year-old Sione Taumololo and 33-year-old Talita Fifita - while a number of others were injured.
On Wednesday night, the band performed for the first time in public since the crash at The House of Breakthrough church in Gisborne, which was packed out by members of the public.
Newshub.
