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White Island volcano: Ardern urged to help rescue pilots facing charges
Stephen D Antal in Auckland
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Photograph: AP
New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, is facing calls to intervene in the prosecution of a former SAS soldier who led a daring helicopter mission to save tourists from White Island/Whakaari eruption.
Pilot Mark Law, 49, was widely hailed a hero when he and three colleagues landed on the island when emergency services deemed it too dangerous to fly there and brought 12 people to hospital on the mainland.
Forty-seven tourists and guides were trapped when the island, New Zealand’s most active volcano, erupted without warning on 9 December 2019. Twenty-two people died and some of the survivors, including British mother and daughter Liz and Heather McGill, suffered horrific burns. ....

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