12 Dec 2019

Locals frustrated at govt insistence on no travel to Whakaari

From First Up, 5:48 am on 12 December 2019

The government isn't allowing anyone to go onto Whakaari/White Island until it is safe even if families of the victims want to go and retrieve the bodies themselves. The aftermath of the volcano eruption is now entering into its fourth day. But no one has been back since Whakaari-White Island first erupted on Monday, leaving some locals extremely frustrated. Our reporter Jessie Chiang has been there since Monday and joins us now...