Relatives of tourists killed by an eruption at a New Zealand volcano will have to wait for the bodies to be recovered because it's still too dangerous to step foot on the island, officials say.
"We are confident in our ability to deliver the rescue operation once we can be sure we can manage the very real dangers that anyone going onto the island would face," Tims added."Those deploying to the island will likely encounter serious physical and chemical hazards, for which we must be prepared."
Many of those on the island had taken a day trip from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Ovation of the Seas. Those who survived the blast had terrible burns and some ran into the sea screaming. "I really struggled to communicate because a lot were tourists and some didn't speak any English," she told the news agency."It was really hard to try and figure out from them what was hurting. If they're just screaming like it's really hard to figure out where."Among those wounded in the eruption were"It's been a total nightmare," Lauren Urey's father, Rick Barham, told NBC News.
Questions still remain about why tourists were allowed on to the island just three weeks after New Zealand's geological hazard agency raised its"volcanic alert level."
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