Three children have been orphaned after both their parents have now died of injuries suffered in the Whakaari/White Island eruption
Three children have been orphaned after both their parents have now died of injuries suffered in the Whakaari/White Island eruption
30 January 2020
Police have confirmed another person had died of their injuries in Middlemore Hospital on Tuesday night.
Friends and US news outlet Atlanta Journal-Constitution media have named that person as Pratap "Paul" Singh.
He was an Atlanta-based philanthropist whose wife, Mayuri, died of her injuries on December 22.
The couple have three children - an 11-year-old son and 6-year-old twins.
It brings the total of those to have died so far to 21.
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