
Christchurch, New Zealand — Rescue workers canvass the collapsed CTV building that housed the King's Education School, where missing people are believed to be trapped, after Tuesday's earthquake in the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch. Hundreds of foreign rescuers will join exhausted New Zealand teams on Thursday in an increasingly desperate search of quake-shattered buildings as time runs out to find survivors buried under rubble.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — Locals and travelers left homeless by Tuesday's magnitude 6.3 earthquake rest at Hagley Park Shelter in Christchurch, New Zealand. The official death toll from the quake remained at 75, with scores missing.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — An injured woman is pulled from rubble by rescue workers.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: David Wethey / NZPA
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Christchurch, New Zealand — A helicopter flies over a burning collapsed building in central Christchurch, New Zealand.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mark Mitchell / New Zealand Herald
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Christchurch, New Zealand — A bus is covered in building debris after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — A police officer talks to a woman trapped in a collapsed cathedral. At least 65 were killed, but the death toll was expected to climb.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — A smashed car juts out from a demolished parking structure.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — Rescue workers search for survivors in a collapsed building in New Zealand's second-largest city.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — Rescue workers and residents survey the damage to the city.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — Rescue crews look for staff in the damaged Pyne Gould Guinness building.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — A man is seen after being pulled from the rubble after an earthquake in Christchurch February 22, 2011. The strong earthquake killed and trapped people beneath rubble and sparked fires and toppled buildings in New Zealand's second-biggest city of Christchurch on Tuesday.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: IAIN MCGREGOR / Reuters
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Christchurch, New Zealand — Rescue workers look for victims in the collapsed Pyne Gould Guinness building. People remained trapped after a 6.3 earthquake hit Tuesday.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: MARK MITCHELL / AFP
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Christchurch, New Zealand — A man looks for any victims amid rubble in the central part of the city.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — Rescuers remove a body from a collapsed building.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — The Christchurch Catholic Cathedral sustained extensive damage.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: DAVID WETHEY / NZPA
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Christchurch, New Zealand — Rescue workers carry the body of a deceased woman after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in New Zealand.
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Christchurch, New Zealand — Office workers look for a way out of a high rise building in central Christchurch after the strong earthquake that killed at least 65 people in New Zealand's second-biggest city.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: SIMON BAKER / Reuters
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