カテゴリー: White Island volcano
One person has died in an Australian hospital, bringing the toll to 18 with two still missing, presumed deadThe death toll from last month’s volcanic eruption in New Zealand has grown to 18 after one of the injured died in a hospital in Australia, poli…
Four remain in critical condition while two people still missing after 17 killed in New Zealand disasterMore than a dozen people remain in New Zealand hospitals with life-threatening injuries a month on from the fatal eruption of Whakaari White Island….
Through Christchurch, Whakaari, the murder of Grace Millane, it is the Māori rituals, and each other, that sustain usThe phrase “a year that was bookended by tragedy” is too neat, somehow.Tragedy moves through time differently from other events. Time s…
Australian teenager Winona Langford and New Zealand guide Hayden Marshall-Inman were believed to be in the water after the eruptionThe search for the final two victims of the Whakaari volcano disaster has been suspended, New Zealand police say.Authorit…
Police said on Monday that another person died at an Auckland hospital overnightThe death toll from this month’s volcanic eruption in New Zealand has risen to 19 after police said that another person died at an Auckland hospital on Sunday night.There …
Both bodies are believed to be in the water surrounding Whakaari, with police using tidal models to expand searchThe bodies of a local guide and an Australian tourist who died on Whakaari are “in the hands of the sea” and may never be recovered, New Ze…
Volcanos and fault lines are a part of daily life, but should the tragedy on White Island make us rethink the dangers they pose?One summer evening in Auckland, I got the fright of my life. My house groaned, as though its wooden frame was crying out in …
Prime minister says New Zealand’s ‘no-fault’ accident compensation system did not lead to more risk-taking in tourism sectorAn investigation into whether anyone was at fault for the deaths of at least 16 people in a volcanic eruption in New Zealand las…
Foreign affairs minister’s visit comes after Australian victim dies in Sydney hospital on SundayAustralia’s foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, is set to arrive in New Zealand to meet with its prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, in the wake of the coun…
The 47 people caught in the blast came from seven different countries. There are 16 confirmed fatalities, with many of the injured still in critical conditionThere are 16 confirmed victims of the fatal eruption on White Island/Whakaari – 12 Australians…
Death toll rises to 16 as bid to retrieve the remains of those still missing on White Island is unsuccessfulAn Australian victim caught in New Zealand’s deadly White Island volcano eruption has died in hospital in Sydney, bringing the death toll from t…
Krystal Browitt was on White Island with her father and sister when the eurption occurred Krystal Browitt, the 21-year-old Melbourne woman missing since the White Island volcano eruption, has become the first victim to be identified by police from the …
Recovery won’t be easy for the Australians burned in the New Zealand volcano disaster, but some of the world’s best specialists are on hand to helpAs families of the Australian survivors of the New Zealand volcano disaster wait anxiously on their loved…
Soldiers wearing protective clothing and breathing equipment endured heat stress and threat of another eruption in high-risk operationA team of six New Zealand soldiers wearing breathing apparatus and special fire-retardant suits battled heat stress as…
Dawn body retrieval mission happening despite a higher than 50% chance the Whakaari volcano could erupt again‘Absolutely heartbroken’: families mourn White Island’s victims 9.23pm GMT Two more survivors of the White Island tragedy have been flown to NS…