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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Vishwam Sankaran

Thousands go missing in a week after ‘once-in-a-century’ disaster strikes New Zealand

NZME

Thousands of people are still missing a week after New Zealand was struck by an unprecedented extreme weather event.

The level of destruction wrought by Cyclone Gabrielle is being compared to the havoc caused by the country’s most destructive storm, Bola, in 1988.

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