MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand: Efforts to rescue at least six people buried alive by a landslide at a New Zealand holiday park ended Saturday, with police shifting their focus to recovering human remains.
Police Superintendent Tim Anderson said it could take several days to locate all of the bodies, after a mountain of dirt and debris tumbled onto a campsite in Mount Maunganui on Thursday.
Anderson said it was “heartbreaking” that six people remained unaccounted for, including two teenagers, after camper vans, caravans and a shower block were buried by a mudslide brought on by heavy rain.
The six missing people, presumed dead, included one foreign national, 20-year-old Mans Loke Bernhardsson from Sweden.
The others were New Zealanders: Lisa Anne Maclennan, 50; Jacqualine Suzanne Wheeler, 71; Susan Doreen Knowles, 71 and 15-year-olds Sharon Maccanico and Max Furse-Kee.
