A Tongan man in Brisbane, Australia is recovering in hospital after being apparently injured in what his family has described as a freak BBQ accident.
Sione Lavalu was expected to receive more medical treatments after he woke up at the Royal Hospital in Brisbane this week.
“He has woken up and it is clear he’s conscious again”, his brother Manase Lavalu told Kaniva News in Tongan.
Pictures provided by the family appeared to show Sione was being spoon fed by a relative while lying consciously in a bed in hospital. He was surrounded by some family members.
Manase previously said Sione was picked up at a home after reports he was allegedly injured in a BBQ accident.
Manase claimed an investigation was underway to confirm Sione’s cause of injuries.
It is understood, Sione was no longer working under the Tongan government’s agreement with the Australian authorities for Tongan employees who worked in the country under the Seasonal Worker Programme.
