カテゴリー: Volcanoes
Deputy commissioner says police have been facing increasing pressure from victims’ families to recover bodies from White IslandNew Zealand police have revealed they are in the final stages of planning a body retrieval mission to White Island on Friday …
Two more people have died from injuries sustained during the eruption on White IslandTwo more people have died from injuries sustained during the eruption of New Zealand’s White Island volcano, bringing the confirmed death toll from the disaster to eig…
Two more Australians are named among the dead as the father of one victim questions whether his son was fully informed of the risksTwo more people have died from injuries sustained during the eruption of New Zealand’s White Island volcano, bringing the…
Country’s health authorities said to have ordered 1.2m sq cm of skin to treat burn injuriesSurgeons are working around the clock to help tourists who suffered horrendous burn injuries in the eruption of the New Zealand’s White Island volcano, health ex…
Authorities vow to return to recover eight bodies but ‘significant increase’ in volcanic activity leads to delaysFirst Australian victims named – latest updatesNew Zealand police have vowed to return to White Island as soon as possible to retrieve the …
‘The burns were horrific … A lot of the people could not talk,’ says Mark LawWhite Island volcano: police open inquiry as sixth person diesA commercial helicopter pilot who led a team that rescued 12 victims from the White Island volcano eruption has t…
Jacinda Ardern confirms that New Zealanders and tourists from Australia, the US, Britain, China and Malaysia are among missing on White Island/Whakaari. Follow rolling updates Five people dead and eight missing after New Zealand volcanic eruptionHow to…
New Zealand police say no one still alive on island, and more injured people may dieNew Zealand police have launched an investigation into the eruption of the White Island volcano, as further details emerged of the scale of the disaster in which at lea…
One minute they were taking photos, the next tending the burns of fellow tourists in New ZealandFollow the latest updates on the eruption – liveIt was a beautiful, clear day in Whakatāne, a town on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, the air …
Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five New Zealand volcano: five dead after White Island eruptionHow tourists became first-aiders on seas off White Island volcano 1.02pm GMT We are going to pa…
No survivors left on island, say police after disaster leaves up to two dozen people missingPolice in New Zealand have said they do not expect to find any more survivors from a volcanic eruption on White Island that killed at least five people and inju…
Underwater volcano sees old island disappear below the waves, replaced by a bigger one nearbyAn undersea volcanic eruption in the Tongan archipelago has sunk one island and created another one that is three times larger, according to a report by geolog…