New Zealand police open criminal investigation into volcano deaths
A woman places flowers on a fence near the waterfront in Whakatane, New Zealand, on Tuesday. About 30 of the survivors remained hospitalized on Tuesday, many flown to burn units around the country. The first confirmed death was of a local man, Hayden Marshall-Inman, a guide who had shown tourists around the island.
“These questions must be asked and they must be answered,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in Parliament. Relatives of a newlywed American couple say the husband and wife were severely burned. Barbara Barham told the Washington Post that her daughter Lauren Urey, 32, and son-in-law Matthew Urey, 36, from Richmond, Va., were on a honeymoon trip.
New Zealand’s GeoNet seismic monitoring agency had raised the volcano’s alert level on Nov. 18 from 1 to 2 on a scale where 5 represents a major eruption, noting an increase in sulfur dioxide gas, which originates from magma. It also said volcanic tremors had increased from weak to moderate strength. It raised the alert level to 4 for a time after Monday’s eruption but lowered it to 3 as the activity subsided.
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