{"id":30354,"date":"2021-03-30T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/pike-river-families-accept-end-of-mission-to-find-mine-disaster-victims"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:44:49","slug":"pike-river-mine-families-accept-end-of-mission-to-find-victims-with-heartbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30354","title":{"rendered":"Pike river mine families accept end of mission to find victims &#8216;with heartbreak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says it will no longer fund risky mission to retrieve 29 bodies from site of New Zealand\u2019s worst mining disaster<\/p>\n<p>Families of the men who died in one of New Zealand\u2019s worst mining disasters have expressed their heartbreak that the government has ended funding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/17\/pike-river-mine-recovery-teams-to-break-seal-in-search-of-remains-of-miners\">re-enter the mine<\/a>, leaving the remains of their loved ones trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine men were killed when an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/pike-river-mine-disaster-10-years-on-families-mark-painful-anniversary\"> explosion ripped through the Pike river mine<\/a> on the west coast in November 2010. Their bodies have not been recovered, and remain in the mine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/pike-river-families-accept-end-of-mission-to-find-mine-disaster-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says it will no longer fund risky mission to retrieve 29 bodies from site of New Zealand\u2019s worst mining disasterFamilies of the men who died in one of New Zealand\u2019s worst mining disasters have expressed their heartbreak that the government h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30354\/revisions\/30355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}