The earthquake occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand has 98 dead and 226 missing, said, Thursday, February 24, local police, thus giving for the first time an accurate accounting of missing persons, on which "we are extremely worried, "he told reporters the district commander Dave Cliff. Hope dwindled into effect on Thursday of finding survivors in the second largest city (390,000 inhabitants), two days after the earthquake of 6.3 magnitude - the biggest killer in New Zealand since eighty years years - no sign of life was no longer seen by rescuers last twenty-four hours.
A language school located in one of the buildings destroyed most of downtown, said that forty-eight of its employees and students, mostly Asian, were missing. Near this building stands the Grand Chancellor Hotel, the tallest building in Christchurch, which could collapse, officials said.
On the night that followed the quake, which occurred Tuesday at midday, rescuers had removed the debris about thirty people alive. They were a handful to have been rescued Wednesday, and since the excavations of the rescuers were unsuccessful. In a building called the Pyne Gould, which collapsed like a house of cards, the focus is now on recovering bodies, authorities said.
Fourteen people were missing. The state of emergency was declared throughout the country for the first time in its history: it can direct all national resources to the effort of relief and assistance in Christchurch. 
A language school located in one of the buildings destroyed most of downtown, said that forty-eight of its employees and students, mostly Asian, were missing. Near this building stands the Grand Chancellor Hotel, the tallest building in Christchurch, which could collapse, officials said.
On the night that followed the quake, which occurred Tuesday at midday, rescuers had removed the debris about thirty people alive. They were a handful to have been rescued Wednesday, and since the excavations of the rescuers were unsuccessful. In a building called the Pyne Gould, which collapsed like a house of cards, the focus is now on recovering bodies, authorities said.
Fourteen people were missing. The state of emergency was declared throughout the country for the first time in its history: it can direct all national resources to the effort of relief and assistance in Christchurch.
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