Flowers and tears for tour guide who died in volcano tragedy
"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," Ms Ardern said at a morning news conference in Whakatane, a town on the mainland's east coast, about 50km from White Island.
"In their immediate efforts to get people off the island, those pilots made an incredibly brave decision under extremely dangerous circumstances," Ardern said.
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