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| Connor Hayes and JoannaLam |
Friends in Canada and police in New Zealand fear that a young couple from Ottawa have been lost after their rental van was swept off the road by a landslide in a rugged part of the country’s South Island. Today more parts of the wrecked van were washed ashore more than 50 km from where it left the road, the New Zealand Herald reported. Joanna Lam, 24, and her boyfriend Connor Hayes, 25, have not been seen since Sept. 10 while they were travelling on the island. Police have already found the van’s real wheels and chassis at the bottom of a gorge, but haven’t located the body or engine of the vehicle. The fuel pump was found 7 km north of the mouth of the Haast River, the Herald reported. Early Wednesday morning, New Zealand time, 16 volunteers and police officers set out to scour the river and below the gorge. There are two boats in the river and a helicopter is searching from the air. Friends in Ottawa became concerned when Ms. Lam failed to appear for work in Ottawa at a job she had recently obtained
