Kiwi troops airlift 6 bodies in volcano mission
Friends and family of those lost on White Island when it erupted last week arriving back into Whakatane on a White Island Tours boat after a blessing for the lost out at sea today. Intensifying fears of another eruption frustrated efforts to recover bodies from New Zealand’s White Island. – AFP pic, December 13, 2019.
A TEAM of elite New Zealand soldiers airlifted six bodies from the volatile White Island volcano today, police said, in a mission carried out under the ever-present threat of another eruption. AFP witnessed two military helicopters set off from Whakatane airport at first light for the offshore volcano, where an eruption last Monday is believed to have killed at least 16 people and severely injured dozens more.
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