Group reportedly got into difficulty as torrential rain hit during outing in Northland region
have found the body of a teenager who died on Tuesday as torrential rain fell during a school trip into caves in the Northland region.was still evident. In New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, inspections of 120 water-damaged buildings began on Wednesday morning as the weather cleared.continued late into Tuesday night until the body was found, Police Supt Tony Hill said in a statement on Wednesday.
There would be “a number of questions the public will have”, Hill said in Wednesday’s statement. But he urged people “to please not make assumptions as to what has occurred”. Weather warnings were lifted on Tuesday night for Northland and Auckland, both of which bore the brunt of devastating floods in January and February that killed four people, rendered roads impassable, and badly damaged hundreds of buildings. The regions were battered again by Cyclone Gabrielle later that month, and by the beginning of May, Auckland had already recorded 90% of its average rainfall for the year.
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