New Zealand has announced a national state of emergency.
"Mayor Bob Parker and Prime Minister John Key said this morning at least 75 people were dead following yesterday's quake. They said 55 bodies had been identified and there were a further 20 unidentified bodies. Mr Parker said another 300 people were listed as missing, though not all of them would be trapped in buildings that were being searched for survivors."
"Searchers have flood-lit the CTV site and brought in a digger and more than 20 rescue staff to the still-smoking ruins. Police said more than 100 people may have been lost in the CTV building and the devastation is not survivable so they were concentrating on recovery rather than rescue."
"A mother died with her baby in her arms in Christchurch's shopping district during yesterday's earthquake. Passers-by went to her aid, but the woman was already dead. It was not clear how badly the baby was injured when mother and child were hit by falling debris."
"Rescuers have had to amputate limbs to free survivors from collapsed buildings after the quake, police said this morning."
"Hopes that a Victorian-born woman was about to be pulled from the rubble of a Christchurch building have been dashed this afternoon, with rescuers revealing the woman they have been in contact with is not Ann Voss. Ms Voss has been trapped under her desk in the four-level Pyne Gould building for 24 hours, and overnight spoke to numerous media outlets by mobile phone to detail the harrowing details of being buried alive before her battery died. Rescuers this morning believed that had made contact with the Christchurch resident, after finding a woman trapped beneath a desk who said her name was Anne. But police have told reporters at the scene today that the person trapped was another woman named Anne - not Ms Voss, a former Geelong resident.
Ms Voss earlier said she was convinced she would die in the darkness and called her children in Australia to say goodbye. Her son Robert, 31, who lives in Middle Park, left Melbourne Airport this morning bound for Christchurch. The news comes as Victoria prepares to send 100 police officers to quake-stricken Christchurch as part of a 300-strong Australian policing contingent."
"Mayor Bob Parker and Prime Minister John Key said this morning at least 75 people were dead following yesterday's quake. They said 55 bodies had been identified and there were a further 20 unidentified bodies. Mr Parker said another 300 people were listed as missing, though not all of them would be trapped in buildings that were being searched for survivors."
"Searchers have flood-lit the CTV site and brought in a digger and more than 20 rescue staff to the still-smoking ruins. Police said more than 100 people may have been lost in the CTV building and the devastation is not survivable so they were concentrating on recovery rather than rescue."
"A mother died with her baby in her arms in Christchurch's shopping district during yesterday's earthquake. Passers-by went to her aid, but the woman was already dead. It was not clear how badly the baby was injured when mother and child were hit by falling debris."
"Rescuers have had to amputate limbs to free survivors from collapsed buildings after the quake, police said this morning."
"Hopes that a Victorian-born woman was about to be pulled from the rubble of a Christchurch building have been dashed this afternoon, with rescuers revealing the woman they have been in contact with is not Ann Voss. Ms Voss has been trapped under her desk in the four-level Pyne Gould building for 24 hours, and overnight spoke to numerous media outlets by mobile phone to detail the harrowing details of being buried alive before her battery died. Rescuers this morning believed that had made contact with the Christchurch resident, after finding a woman trapped beneath a desk who said her name was Anne. But police have told reporters at the scene today that the person trapped was another woman named Anne - not Ms Voss, a former Geelong resident.
Ms Voss earlier said she was convinced she would die in the darkness and called her children in Australia to say goodbye. Her son Robert, 31, who lives in Middle Park, left Melbourne Airport this morning bound for Christchurch. The news comes as Victoria prepares to send 100 police officers to quake-stricken Christchurch as part of a 300-strong Australian policing contingent."
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