Overview
- Police said as many as nine people may be unaccounted for at Beachside Holiday Park, with children among the missing and no signs of life detected for hours after initial calls were heard.
- Urban search-and-rescue teams, sniffer dogs and excavators worked through hazardous terrain as the site remained too unstable for continuous access.
- Two people were confirmed dead after a separate landslide hit a house in the nearby Welcome Bay/Papamoa area.
- Police continued to search for a man swept away with his vehicle near Warkworth after earlier flooding.
- Record or near-record rainfall across the North Island prompted local states of emergency, widespread power outages and major road closures.