‘I would strongly suggest that there is no one that has survived on the island,’ New Zealand police Deputy Commissioner John Tims said of the eight people still missing on White Island after a volcanic eruption
WHAKATANE, New Zealand - Fearing a volcano could erupt again, search parties were unable to set foot on New Zealand’s White Island for eight people still missing on Tuesday, as police raised the death toll to six from the eruption a day earlier.
“I would strongly suggest that there is no one that has survived on the island,” police Deputy Commissioner John Tims said of the eight people still missing. New Zealand’s geological hazards agency GeoNet raised the alert level for the volcano in November because of an increase in volcanic activity. The volcano’s last fatal eruption was in 1914, when it killed 12 sulphur miners.Ash-covered victims of New Zealand volcano eruption looked badly burned, helicopter pilot saysYet, daily tours bring more than 10,000 visitors to the privately owned island every year, marketed as “the world’s most accessible active marine volcano”.
“It’s now clear that there were two groups on the island - those who were able to be evacuated and those who were close to the eruption,” Ardern said at a morning news conference in Whakatane, a town on the mainland’s east coast, about 50 km from White Island.Later, in parliament, she paid tribute to the pilots of four helicopters that landed on White Island in the aftermath of the eruption.
“We wish to thank everyone involved in the rescue effort, including the first responders, medical personnel and the locals who helped evacuate people from the island,” Peter Buttle said. “Their efforts have been both courageous and extraordinary.” “The phone rang at midnight. Then I heard a voicemail come on. It was my son. He said, ‘Mom ... this is not a joke. A volcano erupted while we were on the island. We’re at the hospital with severe burns.’”
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