Aussie teen presumed dead found alive
A Sydney teenager who was missing and presumed dead after the deadly New Zealand volcano disaster has been found alive after two days.
19-year-old Jesse Langford was among 19 Australians who were unaccounted for on Wednesday afternoon when a dormant volcano erupted to life with 47 people on top of it on Monday afternoon.
Both he, his sister and parents were on a cruise ship Ovation of the Seas when they decided to take a tour to the volcano on White Island.
It has not been made clear as of yet where Jesse was located but it is understood the rest of his family are still currently missing.
The news comes as twenty-five people lie in hospital in critical condition. Grave fears remain for at least eight Australians.
The gruesome task of scouring the ash-covered White Island will continue as worried family members wait for painful phone calls that their loved ones’ bodies have been found.
Three Australians are assumed to be among six people that have been confirmed dead in the horrifying eruption off the coast of New Zealand on Monday just after 2pm.
The other three victims include White Island tour guide Hayden Marshall-Inman and a Malaysian national. The identity and origin of the sixth victim is not known.
What we do know is that there were 47 people on the island when ash spewed from a dormant crater. Of those, 24 were Australians who had been visiting the island.