Authorities vow to return to recover eight bodies but ‘significant increase’ in volcanic activity leads to delays
New Zealand police have vowed to return to White Island to retrieve the bodies of eight tourists who died there, as the first Australian victims of the volcanic eruption were named.
Police efforts to reach the island were thwarted on Wednesday as volcanic activity increased, making it too dangerous for disaster victim identification officers to land. However, police did manage to conduct four flyovers of the island and were analysing footage taken by a drone.
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