A week after the storm struck the North Island, police say two more bodies were found in hard-hit Hawke’s Bay area
Photograph: AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: AFP/Getty Imagesin New Zealand climbed to 11 as many people not yet contacted a week later.
Police said on Sunday that two more people had died in the hard-hit Hawke’s Bay area in circumstances related to the cyclone, raising the death toll to 11.More than 5,600 people remained uncontactable across the country, while 1,196 had registered they were safe, police said. Recovery efforts continued, with teams from Auckland council carrying out rapid building assessments on damaged homes in the coastal areas of Muriwai and Piha, about 60km west of Auckland.
About 62,000 households were without power nationwide on Saturday. Of those, almost 40,000 were in Hawke’s Bay, out of a population of about 170,000.
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