It is the last, the mothers of a newlywed american couple, who celebrated their wedding with a trip to New Zealand, have heard from, respectively, their daughter and son.
It writes the Washington Post.
The newlyweds – Lauren Urey at 32 years old and Matthew Urey at 36 – was taken place on a cruise ship to celebrate, they had given their ‘yes’ to each other.
During their journey they had planned to take a quick visit to the new zealand island White Island is the top of a submarine volcano.
According to Lauren Ureys mother, Barbara Barham, were the pair nervous that the volcano would erupt. But that was exactly what happened on Monday.
the Activity of the volcano had been simmering for some weeks – and on Monday culminating the sudden. From one second to the other was ash, and the icy vapor shot up of the volcano, while several people were quite near the crater.
Six people have so far been declared dead, many are injured and eight persons are still missing on the island. It is not supposed that they will be found alive.
the Community of the victims have been identified as the White Island-tourguiden Hayden Marshall-Inman. On Facebook, his brother, Mark Inman, confirmed the sad news:
‘My brother is gone, while he did what he loved. Thank you for all your messages,’ he writes.
the Washington Post says Barbara Barham, that she on Monday, was called by cruiseselskabet Royal Caribbean, who asked if she had heard from her daughter since neither Lauren or Matthew had returned to the ship ‘Ovation of the Seas’ after the trip to the volcanic island. She had not.
Not long after called Matthew Ureys mother to her, and said, that she had discovered a telefonsvarerbesked from his son.
“Her son called and said that they had been on the trip there, and that there had been a volcanic eruption, and that they were badly burned. He said that he would call again, as soon as he could, but to talk and make phone calls was difficult. His hands were so severely burned that it was difficult for him to call,” says Barbara Barham to the american media.
In the message told Matthew that they had been transported to a hospital.
It is the last they have heard from the pair.
“I’m in a panic. I don’t know what I should do by myself. I feel like I should cry, but I can’t even,” says Barbara Barham to the Washington Post.
A spokesperson for a hospital in Auckland called subsequent to Barbara to tell her that her daughter lay on the operating table.
The lower part of her body has severe burns covering at least 20 percent of her body.
Matthew was, according to the Washington Post flown to a hospital in Christchurch, where he is receiving treatment for burns covering about 80 percent of his body.
Lauren’s mother is now on the way to New Zealand, while Matthew’s mother also is in the process of arranging a trip.
It was a total of 47 persons on the volcanic island of White Island, as the Monday went in the outbreak.
in addition to the six dead and eight missing people is 31 people admitted to hospitals with various degrees of burns.
27 of the injured have burns over 30 percent of the body, informs the authorities on Tuesday morning Danish time.
Some have burns on over 90 percent of the body. Thus, it is not certain that all of the inpatients will survive, underlines the authorities.
