The family of volcanic eruption victim Lisa Dallow is hoping her daughter and husband will also be found alive after the White Island explosion.
Meredith Dallow said her sister-in-law was in a critical condition with severe burns.
"It's horrible being back here but then I think there's nothing probably we can do over there either," she said.She heard about the explosion on the TV news and then called the New Zealand consulate to find out more. The consulate confirmed the victims were from the Dallows' cruise ship Ovation of the Seas, and that the family had gone on a daytrip to White Island.
"I think we were just in shock and didn't really know what to think or do because at that stage I didn't know how bad things were or anything," Meredith Dallow said.Casualties of the eruption have been sent to hospitals across New Zealand, as well as some in Australia."That's what I pin my hopes to — that they've been taken to different hospitals," she said.
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