Three people have died in New Zealand due to Cyclone Gabrielle, which hit the country earlier this week, authorities announced on Wednesday (February 15th).
A body was found where a firefighter was reported missing when a house collapsed during the stormy weather in West Auckland, and two others in the Hawke's Bay area of the North Island, said said Emergency Management Minister Kieran McAnulty.
Although the worst is over, authorities warned on Wednesday that all danger was not yet over.
Violent winds and torrential rains affected the North Island, where more than three quarters of the country's five million inhabitants live, overnight from Monday to Tuesday, causing floods and landslides.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins called Gabrielle "New Zealand's most significant weather event this century", and a national state of emergency was declared for a week.
With AFP
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