Key Highlights
- 23, from a landslide at Te Areroa, New Zealand | Photo: APMount 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 a 15-year-old, after camper vans, caravans and a shower block were buried in a mudslide brought on by heavy rain.
- For the past two days, the holiday town in the northern part of the country has staged a series of vigils, holding out hope that the search and rescue personnel would be successful.
- Anderson said however it had become apparent there was little chance anyone buried had survived.
