Mine-death family still seeks closure

Monday 10th January 2011, 2:30PM GMT.

John Duggan, who lost his youngest brother in the Pike River mine disaster, with wife Tammy and daughter Paige. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1074641)

A MINE disaster thousands of miles away has had a devastating effect on a local family.

John Duggan was quietly watching the news one morning when he realised that the explosion on the west coast of New Zealand was in the mine where his youngest brother, Chris, 31, worked.

The blast happened on Friday 19 November at Pike River coal mine, near to Greymouth and Mr Duggan’s home town of Runanga.

What followed meant that he and his family have been left still seeking closure.

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jason

January 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm

oh this is sad,to hear they may not recover the bodies of the deseased,not to hold a funeral is very sad indead. thoughts go out to all the familys involved

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