RESCUE teams are desperately searching for missing children after a horror landslide tore through a tourist campsite in New Zealand.
Officials fear there are no signs of life at the camp with no one recovered from beneath the tonnes of mud as of this morning.
Police and rescue officials walk following a landslide at Mount Maunganui in TaurangaCredit: AFP
Nearby hiker Mark Tangney said people were screaming as the landslide smashed into the complex as dozens ran for their lives.
He told the New Zealand Herald: “I could just hear people screaming, so I just parked up and ran to help.
“There were six or eight other guys there on the roof of the toilet block with tools just trying to take the roof off because we could hear people screaming: ‘Help us, help us, get us out of here’.”
Canadian tourist Dion Siluch, 34, was at the site when the landslide hit.
He said: “I was in a massage at [the] mount pools and the whole room started shaking.
“When I walked out, there was a caravan in the pool, and there’s a mudslide that missed me by about 30 feet.
“It was all very confusing. I wasn’t sure if someone had driven off the road and into the pool.
“It took me a while to realise that the mountain had collapsed and had pushed everything into the pool.”
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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