Official death toll in New Zealand volcano eruption rises to 18

SYDNEY. KAZINFORM The official death toll in the Whakaari/White Island volcano eruption in New Zealand last month rose to 18 on Monday after the death overnight of one of those evacuated to Australia.

«We are sad to inform that one of the three patients The Alfred received from the volcano tragedy has passed away,» Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital said in a statement Monday, EFE-EPA reports.