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A child killed alongside his grandmother when a landslide hit a house in PΔpΔmoa was a "bright" talented musician, his piano teacher says.
Two bodies were recovered by police at the home on Welcome Bay Rd on Thursday.
RNZ understands they were a grandmother and grandchild.
St Peter's Anglican Church director of music Chalium Poppy said the boy was due to come to a piano lesson at the Mt Maunganui church on Thursday.
Poppy said he was contacted by a friend of the family to say the boy was missing in one of the slips.
"I'd been teaching all morning, so I hadn't h
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