WELLINGTON, Dec 16 — The names of four more people killed in an eruption on New Zealand’s most active volcano were released today, as the South Pacific nation prepared to mark one week since the disaster. The death toll from the explosion stands at 18, including two people whose bodies have not...
People observe a minute of silence as the pay their respects to the victims of the White Island volcano eruption, at the hospital in Whakatane, New Zealand December 10, 2019. — Reuters pic
All four victims named today were Australian — Jessica Richards, 20, Jason David Griffiths, 33, Martin Berend Hollander, 48, and Kristine Elizabeth Langford, 45. New Zealand will pause for a minute’s silence at 2:11pm — precisely a week since the eruption — in tribute to those affected. Two land searches of the volcano carried out by special forces troops in protective gear have failed to find any sign of the missing people.
“We will continue the operation for as long as we have a chance of recovering those bodies,” he said, adding in a separate interview to Auckland radio station Magic “it can take days and weeks”.
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