Victims of the Whakaari White Island eruption and their families have been awarded more than $10 million New Zealand dollars ($6 million US) in reparations, a judge ruled on Friday. There were 47 people sightseeing on the privately owned island when the volcano erupted in December 2019. Twenty-two people were killed and a further 25 were injured. In the Auckland District Court, Judge Evangelos Thomas sentenced five companies that took tourists to the island before the fatal eruption. The island’s owner, Whakaari Management, was ordered to pay $4.88 million in reparations to all of the victims …