Whakaari/White Island eruption: Victims awarded more than $10m in reparations
Source: Radio New Zealand
Whakaari/White Island eruption: Victims awarded more than $10m in reparations
3:44 pm today
Felix Walton, reporter
@felixjwalton
Victims of the Whakaari/White Island eruption and their families have been awarded more than $10 million in total reparations.
In the Auckland District Court on Friday, Judge Evangelos Thomas delivered sentences for five companies that took tourists to the volcanic island before the fatal eruption in 2019.
Twenty-two people died in the eruption and 25 others were injured.
He said reparations would be paid by the islands' owner Whakaari Management Limited, White Island Tours and the helicopter company Volcanic Air Safaris.
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