London Bombings: MFAT Update 8 At 0930 8 July 2005
High
Commission staff have visited a number of hospitals and are
working their way round others. There are still no/no
reports of New Zealanders being injured.
The New Zealand
High Commission will maintain its call centre throughout its
night (i.e. today) but media calls, please, should be
directed here. We shall provide updates throughout today as
we receive information from the High Commission.
There
are been several hundred calls to the MFAT call centre
overnight and now to the Red Cross call centre. It would
be really helpful if people who previously called in because
they have been unable to contact relatives - but have since
made that link - telephone back to the Red Cross on 0800 733
276 when contact has been established with their friend or
relative.
This will allow us to eliminate these
persons from further enquiry and concentrate on other cases.
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