{"id":76068,"date":"2026-01-24T11:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/24\/new-zealand-landslide-rescue-efforts-called-off-for-at-least-six-people-buried-in-disaster"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:23:29","slug":"new-zealand-landslide-rescue-efforts-called-off-for-six-people-buried-in-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76068","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand landslide: rescue efforts called off for six people buried in disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue efforts at Mount Maunganui site switch to recovery operation that police say could take several days<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to rescue six people buried by a landslide at a New Zealand holiday park ended on Saturday, with police shifting into a recovery operation.<\/p>\n<p>Police Supt Tim Anderson said human remains had been uncovered on Friday night beneath the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/23\/new-zealand-mount-maunganui-campsite-landslide-witness\">mountains of dirt and debris that crashed into a campsite in Mount Maunganui <\/a>on Thursday, adding that it could take several days to locate all of the victims due to the unstable ground.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/24\/new-zealand-landslide-rescue-efforts-called-off-for-at-least-six-people-buried-in-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue efforts at Mount Maunganui site switch to recovery operation that police say could take several daysEfforts to rescue six people buried by a landslide at a New Zealand holiday park ended on Saturday, with police shifting into a recovery operatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76069,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068\/revisions\/76069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}