Six bodies are recovered. The ground search for two more has halted.

Eight members of New Zealand’s military flew on Friday to White Island, a popular tourist destination, where they recovered the bodies of six victims killed in Monday’s eruption of the island’s volcano. But the team ended its ground search for two other bodies in the afternoon.

Col. Rian McKinstry, who was part of the command leading the Friday operation, said the team on the ground had to end its search because their air supplies were dwindling. But officials said the search would be continued from the air and the water, since one of the two victims whose bodies were not recovered was believed to have been swept into the bay. A dive team will be redeployed on Saturday to search for that body.

The recovery team had gone to the island, also known by its Maori name, Whakaari, at daybreak Friday and spent four hours on the ground searching for the bodies.

John Tims, the deputy police commissioner for national operations, said the six bodies that were recovered were airlifted by helicopter back to the recovery team’s vessel, the HMNZS Wellington, moored in the Bay of Plenty, before being flown later to Auckland to be formally identified.