New Zealand Navy Kaikoura reached

- Two ships of the New Zealand Navy on Wednesday to reach the coastal town of Kaikoura hit by an earthquake. There are more than a thousand people since Sunday fixed, including dozens of Dutch.

The ships not only evacuate people from the area but also have food and water on board. Kaikoura is there a shortage of emergence.

The sixty Dutch stuck in the tourist resort is probably not captured by the Navy. Tour TravelEssence hired a plane to evacuate the Dutch.

Tourists had to cancel their itinerary Kaikoura, responded mostly annoyed and disappointed. The resort is among more popular because in the seas around whales and dolphins live.

Two people have survived the quake. How big the damage is still unclear. It runs at least in the billions.