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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Tess McClure in Auckland

New Zealand police find more remains 13 years after Pike River disaster

File image shows flowers for victims of Pike River mine explosion in 2011.
File image taken in 2011 shows flowers for victims of Pike River mine explosion. The mine is still considered too dangerous and unstable to enter. Photograph: Iain McGregor/AP

Police have located the remains of at least two more of the 29 men who died in the explosion at Pike River, one of New Zealand’s worst mining disasters.

New Zealand police are still conducting a criminal investigation into the 2010 mine explosion, and on Friday morning announced they had located “the remains of two, possibly three, miners” underground, at the site of the blast where methane gas ignited and exploded at the west coast coalmine.

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