"Search teams have been working through the slip layer by layer, but tragically it is now apparent that we will not be able to bring them home alive, Anderson said over the weekend. We informed the families of this news this morning They are going through something very few people could understand, and we ask that they be given space to grieve."
"My love for Max is impossible to explain, no words are big enough to describe this love or loss, she wrote. What I can say is from the moment I first looked at his beautiful blue eyes almost 16 years ago he had my whole heart, he was my sunshine. Max was due to turn 16 this week. Life without Max is impossible to imagine."
Six people were named among the victims of the Mount Maunganui holiday park landslide: 15-year-olds Sharon Maccanico and Max Furse-Kee, literacy coordinator Lisa Maclennan, 50, longtime friends Jacqualine Wheeler and Susan Knowles, both 71, and Swedish national Mans Loke Bernhardsson, 20. Police shifted the operation from a rescue to a recovery phase after search teams worked layer by layer through the slip and concluded survivors were unlikely to be found. Human remains were uncovered and formal identification is under way. Families have been informed and asked for privacy. Recovery resumed after the site was declared potentially unstable. One mother expressed profound grief and described her son as her "sunshine."
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