Teen, tour guide named as missing

Police have identified two remaining victims still unaccounted for following the Whakaari/White Island eruption.

Australian teenager Winona Langford, 17, and Kiwi tour guide Hayden Marshall-Inman, 40, were named as the two victims believed to still be on the island or in the surrounding waters. MarshallInman was believed to have died on his way back to help tourists on the island at the time of the eruption.

Forty-seven people were said to be on the island at the time of the eruption on Monday last week. On Friday, a recovery team brought back six bodies from the island. However, they were unable to locate Marshall-Inman and Langford.

The eruption claimed 16 lives, with another 15 people in hospitals across New Zealand. Thirteen Australians have been transferred home to receive treatment, but one died on Saturday.

Police resumed their recovery operation for Marshall-Inman and Langford yesterday, with a police Eagle helicopter searching

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Australian teenager Winona Langford, 17, and Kiwi tour guide Hayden Marshall-Inman were named as the two victims believed to still be on the island or in the surrounding waters.

Taungawaka Bay in the afternoon.

Officers would focus on areas from Whakaari/White Island through to the East Cape based on tidal patterns, Police Deputy Commissioner John Tims said.

Meanwhile, the HMNZS Wellington has left the waters off Whakaari/White Island.

Police and the coroner’s office were working to identify all of the deceased. They had released the names of 15 of the 16 dead.

Police Commissioner Mike Bush said they were ‘‘almost fully confident that both [remaining bodies] are in the water, however, we’ve got one or two things to cover off before we can say that with 100 per cent confidence’’.

The latest confirmed death, announced on Sunday, was that of a patient being treated in Sydney’s Concord Hospital. As the person died outside New Zealand, police could not release their name.