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Some families who lost loved ones in the Whakaari/White Island eruption have welcomed news of charges being laid over the tragedy.
However, one family believe their loved one would have been "hugely disappointed" by the prosecutions.
WorkSafe NZ has laid criminal charges against 10 organisations and three individuals following the eruption that claimed 22 lives on December 9 last year.
The prosecutions now pit government agencies against each other — and last night a defiant GNS Science said: "We stand by our people and our science." GNS, which monitors volcanic activity, had raised the alert level for White Island in the weeks leading up to the eruption.
WorkSafe chief executive Phil Parkes said the charges concluded the most extensive and complex investigation it had ever undertaken.
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