‘Some incorrect decisions’: Auckland mayor under fire over deadly floods

Auckland: The mayor of Auckland, Wayne Brown, has conceded that incorrect decisions may have been made by emergency management in response to unprecedented rain that has left four dead and thousands of homes flooded. Battered since Friday, New Zealand’s largest city of 1.6 million people remains under a state of emergency declaration on Monday with more severe rainfall forecast for Tuesday. Forecasters are warning on Monday that the city and surrounds remain vulnerable to further flooding. A property in Remuera, Auckland, after being hit by a landslide following torrential rainfall on Friday. By that stage Auckland residents had been fleeing their flooded homes for hours, roads had become rivers, and at least one person had died.