Local MP Jonathan Coleman said it was a "miracle" no-one else was killed. Police say 10 people were taken to hospital. Two other construction workers were among the 14 people injured by the twister. There was a lot of blood and when we rolled him over to try to perform CPR we could see that he had a very bad head wound," she told Radio New Zealand. Student nurse Sophie Bond said she rushed to help him but he had suffered a major head injury and could not be saved. Winds exceeding 200 kilometres per hour tore through the suburb of Albany when the tornado hit without warning yesterday, flipping cars, uprooting trees and shearing the roof off a shopping mall.įather of two Benedict Dacayan was working on a retail building site when the tornado struck.Įyewitnesses reported seeing Dacayan fly into the air when the twister ripped through a shopping complex in the northern suburb of Albany. NZ police have also confirmed the person killed by the tornado was a 37-year-old construction worker from the Philippines. ![]() ![]() A major clean-up has begun in tornado-hit Auckland as authorities in New Zealand's largest city expressed amazement that the destructive twister resulted in only one death.
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