NAPIER, New Zealand: A New Zealand mum has recounted the heartbreak of watching her two-year-old daughter being swept away in floodwaters unleashed by Cyclone Gabrielle, whose death toll rose to eight on
The storm has faded into the South Pacific but has left a trail of destruction and human suffering across New Zealand's North Island.
Details are only gradually emerging about the scale of the disaster and the horrors endured by survivors such as Ella Louise Collins. "The water was about 10 centimetres from the ceiling in our house and rose extremely quickly and violently," Collins wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday.
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