More than 120 Britons died in New Zealand last year, surpassing the number of British deaths in Australia, Canada and India, statistics reveal. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office have released figures on British behaviour abroad for the year 2011/12, highlighting assistance consular needed for arrests, deaths, hospitalisation, rape and sexual assault while in a foreign country. During the past year there were 257,000 British nationals living in New Zealand and 316,976 British residents visited. The report found New Zealand was the ninth most likely country for Britons to require consular assistance in. Philippines was the most likely, followed by Thailand and then Jamaica. It also found 127 Britons died in New Zealand in the past year, up 15 on the previous year. The highest number of Britons to die in any other country was Spain with 1755 deaths, followed by France at 778 deaths and Germany at 366. Sitting below New Zealand in numb
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