New Zealand

There was flooding, power cuts, landslides and forced evacuations after intense rain overnight into Tuesday. The country's emergency minister called it a ...

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says homes are without power and families have been displaced after "extensive damage" across the country. Air New Zealand scrapped 500 flights in the aftermath of the cyclone, including domestic routes to and from Auckland. More rain and high wind is predicted - with the upper South Island possibly in the firing line - but the worst of the storm is believed to be over. The military has been called up to help with evacuations and deliver supplies in the worst-affected parts of the North Island. The country's emergency minister called it a "significant disaster with a real threat to the lives of New Zealanders". The North Island takes the brunt of the cyclone and the military is on the ground helping evacuate people from cut-off communities.

The New Zealand government declared a state of emergency Tuesday across the country's North Island, which has been battered by Cyclone Gabrielle.

The New Zealand government has declared a state of national emergency for only the third time in history.

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Strong winds and driving rain lashed the country's populous North Island, in what Prime Minister Chris Hipkins called the “most significant weather event New ...

“The severity and the damage that we are seeing has not been experienced in a generation.” New Zealand’s three main mobile phone networks said a total of 455 cell sites were offline. Falling trees smashed power lines and floodwaters blocked several major roads, leaving communities stranded.

Cyclone Gabrielle has started to track away from New Zealand after leaving a trail of destruction across large parts of the nation's North Island. Some.

We are still building a picture of the effects of the cyclone.” “But we’re still in for a bumpy time ahead.” More than 265 millimeters (10 inches) of rain was recorded there in a 12-hour period. The government earlier Tuesday declared a national state of emergency for just the third time in New Zealand’s history. It comes just two weeks after Auckland, home to 1.6 million people, was smashed by a storm that caused extensive damage and killed four people. “The severity and the breadth of the damage that we are seeing has not been experienced in a generation.

A state of emergency has been declared for most of the North Island after a damaging cyclone.

"We are still building a picture of the effects of the cyclone as it continues to unfold. It has been applied to the Northland, Auckland, Tairawhiti, Tararua, Bay of Plenty, Waikato and Hawke's Bay regions. "We need to stop making excuses for inaction. People in the area have been warned they could be without power for weeks. It's man versus nature at this point," she told the BBC. A second firefighter involved was critically injured, rescue agencies said.