With other storm-affected districts reporting they are able to manage their response within existing resources, Police National Headquarters is now focussed on critical support for the Tairawhiti and Hawke’s Bay areas. They have confirmed several people are missing in the Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti areas, for whom they have grave concerns. While police expect a large number of the reports to be the result of communication lines being down. The numbers include duplicate reports of the same person reported uncontactable by different people. The vast majority of reports are from Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti alone, with the remainder from across the North Island. There are 111 reports of people now safe. The body of a volunteer firefighter was recovered from a landslide in Muriwai early this afternoonĪ person died following a landslip on a rural property in Putorino yesterday afternoonĪ body was located on the shore in Bay View, Napier last nightĪs of 2.30pm today, 1442 people have been registered via the Police 105 online reporting form as uncontactable. The child is believed to have been caught in rising water yesterday The body of a young person was located in Eskdale shortly before 2pm today Tūranganui-a-Kiwa - Police have received more than 1400 reports of people uncontactable across the North Island in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.įour people have now been confirmed dead following the storm:
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