Wellington, Dec. 15 -- A recovery team landing on White Island to search for the two deceased who remained unaccounted for was not able to find the bodies while the death toll of the volcanic eruption increased to 15, the New Zealand Police said on Sunday.

It is understood that the recovery team had just 75-minutes to locate and recover the bodies that remained missing following the eruption.Only one is thought to still be on the island, the other was sighted in the water earlier in the week.However, both underwater search throughout Saturday and land search on Sunday morning was not able to locate the deceased.Meanwhile, the official death toll reached 15 overnight as another person being treated in the hospital succumbed to severe inju...