{"id":56616,"date":"2023-07-12T15:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T06:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/couple-who-survived-white-island-volcano-tell-court-they-werent-warned-of-danger"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T06:24:49","slug":"couple-who-survived-white-island-volcano-tell-court-they-werent-warned-of-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56616","title":{"rendered":"Couple who survived White Island volcano tell court they weren\u2019t warned of danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US couple gives evidence to New Zealand court in case against island\u2019s owners and tourism operators<\/p>\n<p>An American couple who were badly burned when Whakaari\/White Island erupted in December 2019, killing 22 of the 47 people in its crater, told a New Zealand court that neither their guides nor anyone else involved in their trip to the crater told them that such an event was likely \u2013 or even possible. Information about the dangers they faced on the island volcano was minimal, they said, and safety protections lax.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence from Matthew Urey, 40, and Lauren Urey, 36, opened the prosecution\u2019s case in the Auckland district court on Wednesday, beginning a lengthy trial for the island\u2019s owners and other tourism companies involved in the ill-fated trip.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/couple-who-survived-white-island-volcano-tell-court-they-werent-warned-of-danger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US couple gives evidence to New Zealand court in case against island\u2019s owners and tourism operatorsAn American couple who were badly burned when Whakaari\/White Island erupted in December 2019, killing 22 of the 47 people in its crater, told a New Zeala&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,56,899,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-volcanoes","category-white-island-volcano"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56616","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56617,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56616\/revisions\/56617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}