Source: Radio New Zealand
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Search teams are still trying to find several people who were believed buried by landslides in the Tauranga area following this week’s devastating storms.
On Thursday morning at least two people – one of them a young girl – were missing after a landslide came down on several structures at campground at the base of Mauao, Mount Maunganui.
Meanwhile, a person was seriously hurt and two others killed after a landslide in Welcome Bay in Papamoa.
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