After weighing up the risks, New Zealand police have decided to attempt the retrieval of eight bodies from White Island on Friday morning.
New Zealand's military forces began a high-risk operation on volcanic White Island on Friday to recover bodies of eight people killed in an eruption this week, despite warnings that the island was still highly volatile.
Steam and mud are still jetting from the active vents on Whakaari, where seismic activity on the New Zealand island is reported"a factor of 12" times stronger than before Monday's deadly eruption. "Ultimately, we are all in exactly the same place and wanting to make sure that as soon as possible, as soon as we can, that recovery operation begins,” she told reporters
Nico Fournier, another GNS volcanologist, said flights around the island and monitoring equipment was feeding back real-time information to scientists."Right now, what is preventing the rescue operation is really the risk of the eruption," he said.Mr Fournier made plain the risks of being in the region during an eruption." very fast ballistics, rocks going at incredibly high speed. That would be one sort of casualty," he said.
Victoria and New South Wales tissue banks have sent 20,000 square centimetres of skin to New Zealand hospitals, which has been used to treat the most severely injured in the disaster. More supplied have also been ordered from the United States. Since then, eight people have died in the hospital including six Australians.
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