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| Woman and four children missing in remote New Zealand mountains | Woman and four children missing in remote New Zealand mountains |
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| A search is under way for a woman and four young children who are missing in a remote mountain range of New Zealand. | A search is under way for a woman and four young children who are missing in a remote mountain range of New Zealand. |
| The five – including children aged between four and nine – were dropped off for a planned one to two hour walk in the Te Urewera national park in the Bay of Plenty just after 1pm on Tuesday afternoon. | The five – including children aged between four and nine – were dropped off for a planned one to two hour walk in the Te Urewera national park in the Bay of Plenty just after 1pm on Tuesday afternoon. |
| The mountain rage is located in a remote and isolated part of New Zealand, on the east coast of the North Island. | The mountain rage is located in a remote and isolated part of New Zealand, on the east coast of the North Island. |
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| The group was reported missing just after 4pm New Zealand time on Wednesday afternoon, and a search was launched overnight in the Otamatuna Ridge and will continue Thursday. | The group was reported missing just after 4pm New Zealand time on Wednesday afternoon, and a search was launched overnight in the Otamatuna Ridge and will continue Thursday. |
| Search and rescue crews have been deployed on the ground and a helicopter has also been helping to look for the group. | |
| Tom Adams, of New Zealand’s National Meteorological Service, said overnight temperatures in the region would have been between three and five degrees, with a light frost on the ground. | |
| “It would have been cold out there, but not too severe,” said Adams. | “It would have been cold out there, but not too severe,” said Adams. |
| Search conditions on Thursday were clear and warm, but the weather was set to deteriorate in the region tomorrow, turning severe over the weekend. | Search conditions on Thursday were clear and warm, but the weather was set to deteriorate in the region tomorrow, turning severe over the weekend. |
| Glenn Mitchell, operations manager for Tuhoe Te Uru Taumatua, said the woman was a local Maori woman, of the Tuhoe tribe, and he understood she was a competent and experienced bush woman. She was a local resident of the Waimana settlements, home to about 300 people. | |
| “We are all very concerned here. It has been two nights and now into the third day. I understand the group is all local and had warm clothing, but no protective rain jackets.” | |
| Mitchell said he understood from local police that there were eleven teams of four men each scaling the “rugged bush” for the missing group. |