Campers missing after landslide in northern New Zealand”

Rescue workers are searching for survivors after a landslide smashed into a campsite in northern New Zealand on Thursday.

Campers missing after landslide in northern New Zealand

Rescue workers are searching for survivors after a landslide smashed into a campsite in northern New Zealand on Thursday.

A police car parked at the campsite at the foot of Mount Maungani as people look on.
Kids are among those missing in a landslide at a campsite in northern New Zealand
Emergency services in New Zealand are working to locate people still missing in a landslide that hit a busy campsite at Mount Maunganui, a popular tourist spot on the northern coast of New Zealand.

Rubble barreled down on the Beachside Holiday Park at 9:30 a.m. local time on Thursday (2030

Hundreds of people were at the campsite, the local mayor said, with the country still on summer school holidays.

New Zealand’s Fire and Emergency commander William Pike said there were initially signs of life at the site of the landslide, but not recently, according to local site, Stuff.

Fire and Emergency Commander William Park had earlier told reporters that fire crew and other members of the public had heard voices under the rubble.

But rescue workers had to withdraw because of the unstable ground and nobody had been rescued yet, Stuff said.

Sniffer dogs are at the scene.

Children among those missing in landslide
Police said the number of people missing was in the single figures, with children apparently among them, local media report.