By ABIGAIL CASPARI in Rotorua
A Rotorua mother concerned about her daughter and son-in-law, on holiday in Tanzania, says if something bad has happened to them she would have heard by now.
Ten people, including former Whakatane woman Anita Nicola Pearson, were killed when a truckcarrying onions collided with a tourist van on a road near the Kenyan-Tanzanian border last Tuesday.
Rotorua's Jim and Debbie Harvey are still anxious for a call from their 30-year-old daughter Carol Harvey and her husband Julian Dean, a New Zealand Olympic cyclist, who are believed to be travelling in Tanzania.
Mrs Harvey said yesterday they still had not heard anything from the couple.
They had tried to call Carol's cellphone but they were not able to get through.
"No news is good news. We are not worried because I think we would have heard something by now if something bad had happened."
The couple were due back in Spain on November 2 but Mrs Harvey said she hoped to hear from them sooner.
Many of the couple's friends had called Mrs Harvey and she said it would be good to be able to tell them her daughter and son-in-law were okay.
Mr Harvey had been concerned for the couple's welfare because of rumours suggesting there could be another two New Zealanders dead.
But Jonathan Schwass, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he had heard no reports of any further New Zealanders injured or killed in the accident in which Ms Pearson died, or any others in Tanzania.
