New Zealand, landslide
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"I'm not there for scenery, I'm there for the sanity," the 'Avatar' director said of the decision his family made in 2020 to live in New Zealand permanently
Mount Maunganui is a tourist hotspot, hosting one of New Zealand's most popular beaches and well-loved walking trails. The big wet extended beyond the Bay of Plenty, with large areas of New Zealand's North Island drenched on Wednesday and overnight into Thursday.
A landslide smashed into a campsite in rain-swept northern New Zealand on Thursday, leaving multiple people missing under tonnes of mud.