A Sydney girl is one of the two people still missing following last week's volcano eruption on White Island, New Zealand Police have confirmed.
A Sydney girl is one of the two people still missing following last week's volcano eruption on White Island, New Zealand Police have confirmed.
Winona's parents Anthony Langford, 51, and Kristine Langford, 45, have been confirmed dead while her brother Jesse, 19, is recovering in hospital.Wild weather on Tuesday forced NZ police to abandon their search for the bodies at White Island, also known as Whakaari, for the second straight day. But the mission is now on hold as major gusts and isolated showers lash the Bay of Plenty off Whakatane on NZ's North Island.
They are Coffs Harbour man Richard Elzer, 32, Sydney-based US citizen Barbara Hollander, 49, and Brisbane woman Julie Richards, 47.Some 47 people were on the island when the active volcano blew ash, hot liquid and steam almost three metres into the sky.The Australian death toll currently stands at 16. This includes Winona who's presumed dead and an Australian man who died in a Sydney hospital on Sunday and whose family asked he not be named.
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