NAPIER: New Zealand redeployed gunships and helicopters to deliver water, food and fuel to cities cut off by Cyclone Gabrielle on Thursday (Feb 16), as overwhelmed rescue teams embraced overseas offers of help.
and 10,500 more have been displaced, according to authorities, in a disaster that has crippled the country's populous North Island.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the police held"grave concerns" for those still missing.Hipkins said over 100,000 households were still without power on the North Island, home to more than three-quarters of the country's 5 million residents. Isolated residents have been told not to leave their homes unless"absolutely essential" and to restrict water use.
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