WELLINGTON: New Zealand police said on Wednesday (May 10) that they had recovered the body of
that is now the subject of a comprehensive investigation.
After a day-long search in squalid weather, police said that a body was recovered late on Tuesday and the boy's family was being offered support while the formal identification takes place.Well-wishers left flowers at the caves, which remained behind a police cordon on Wednesday. Questions have been raised about why teachers took more than a dozen 15- and 16-year-olds from Whangarei Boys' High School to an area highly prone to flash floods.Principal Karen Gilbert-Smith said on Wednesday that the school and local community were"devastated", having lost a"much loved and treasured son and brother".
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