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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/city-quake-death-toll-climbs-to-92.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A resident carries water bottles as he walks past a damaged stone chapel on the outskirts of Christchurch (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-city-quake-death-toll-climbs-to-92.jpg" alt="A resident carries water bottles as he walks past a damaged stone chapel on the outskirts of Christchurch (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister said the death toll from the earthquake that devastated the city of Christchurch has risen to 92.</p>
<p>Prime minister John Key told TV One that there are grave fears over an additional 200 people missing.</p>
<p>However, police in Christchurch later said the death toll has risen to 98, with 226 people missing. The earthquake struck just after lunch time on Tuesday local time.</p>
<p>Rescue teams were clinging to the hope of still finding survivors, despite fears that up to 120 bodies are entombed under one of the buildings hardest hit by the shock.</p>
<p>An Irishman, psychiatric nurse Eoin McKenna, is among the victims of the quake, and a man believed to a Briton has also been killed.</p>
<p>Police Supt Dave Cliff said &#8220;between the late 60s and 120 bodies, at the upper limit&#8221; were believed to still be inside the Canterbury Television building, which also housed an English language school.</p>
<p>Efforts have shifted from rescue to recovery at the CTV building, and police say they have given up hope of finding more survivors there. The names of some of those killed in the quake are expected to be released later.</p>
<p>Teams rushed in from Britain, Australia, the United States and Japan and elsewhere in Asia, along with a military field hospital and workers to help repair power, water and phone lines in the South Island city.</p>
<p>A 55-strong search and rescue team, drawn from the British emergency fire and rescue services, is due to arrive in Christchurch.</p>
<p>Christchurch police superintendent Russell Gibson said the operation had become one of body recovery, though he rejected suggestions that rescuers were abandoning hope of finding anyone alive.</p>
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