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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod McGuirk

New Zealand prosecutor alleges tourists were not warned before volcano eruption in 2019 killed 22

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Tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on New Zealand’s most active volcano ahead of a 2019 eruption that killed 22 people, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

There were 47 people on White Island, the tip of an undersea volcano also known by its Indigenous Maori name Whakaari, when superheated steam erupted on Dec. 9. Most of the 25 people who survived were severely burned.

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