Divers search for remaining bodies from NZ volcanic eruption
Search personnel during a recovery operation on White Island. Two people are still missing. – EPA pic, December 14, 2019
DIVERS searched seas around New Zealand’s volatile White Island today for two people still missing five days after the volcano erupted, amid warnings it could do so again. Police deputy commissioner John Tims said the divers faced “unique and challenging conditions” as they searched waters “with between zero and two metres visibility”.
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