US EditionLong-Time Camping Friends Among Six Lost in Mount Maunganui Landslide
- On January 24, New Zealand Police said they had moved from rescue to recovery at the Mount Maunganui campground, Tauranga, saying the six people unaccounted for were unlikely to be alive.
- Heavy rain this week triggered the landslide on Thursday at Mount Maunganui, North Island, and sodden slopes amid a fatal January 22 slip in Papamoa, Bay of Plenty, complicated rescue efforts.
- Thirty-Five rescue workers, backed by heavy machinery, were clearing debris after a partial slip while Fire and Emergency New Zealand handed the operation to police at 11.20am on Saturday.
- Chief Coroner Judge Anna Tutton said the Coroners Court leads the Disaster Victim Identification process, which is `painstaking` and `complex`, with victims sent to the Hamilton mortuary.
- Heavy rain forecast could force crews to withdraw and complicate recovery, while two 15-year-old pupils from Pakuranga College are missing as the school year starts next week.
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“An unspeakable tragedy” – Murray Burton reflects on Mount Maunganui landslide
Former Elim Christian College principal Murray Burton. Times file photo PJ Taylor By Jane Nixon of the Franklin Times Drawing on his experience of leading a school through profound loss, the former principal of Elim Christian College in Botany says the impact of the Mount Maunganui landslide tragedy will be felt far beyond those directly affected. Murray Burton says communities across the country will be reeling after the Mount Maunganui and Pā…
15-year-old trapped in NZ landslide remembered as 'kind and beautiful' human
After two days of holding out hope despite all the odds, the local police superintendent had the heart-wrenching job of announcing that no-one trapped by the landslide at Mount Maunganui could have survived.
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At least two people have died and several are reported to be missing, including a young child, after landslides in New Zealand, officials said on Thursday. It comes after high winds and heavy rainfall over the past few days on the North Island, leading to multiple power outages and widespread flooding, local media reported. The first landslide hit a house in the community of Welcome Bay on New Zealand's North Island at 4.50am, police said. Two p…
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