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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Dangers posed by a volatile South Pacific volcano are preventing searchers from looking for a missing conservation worker feared killed when it erupted last Friday, officials said Wednesday.
A 12-member team on remote Raoul Island, 620 miles north of New Zealand, would likely be unable to recover the body of Mark Kearney, who was checking the volcano's crater lake temperature when it exploded.
Kearney, 23, has been missing since then, and the eruption probably buried him under 16 feet of mud and ash.
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