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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-75.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Emergency services search the rumble for survivors of the collapsed CTV building in Christchurch's business district (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-75.jpg" alt="Emergency services search the rumble for survivors of the collapsed CTV building in Christchurch's business district (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Officials in New Zealand have said the death toll from the earthquake in Christchurch has risen to 75.</p>
<p>Christchurch mayor Bob Parker said 300 people were listed as missing but cautioned that the number trapped in collapsed buildings was not known.</p>
<p>A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck near the city around lunchtime local time on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and sending rubble tumbling onto cars and people. Officials fear that the death toll could rise further.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are bodies littering the streets, they are trapped in cars, crushed under rubble and where they are clearly deceased our focus &#8230; has turned to the living,&#8221; police Superintendent Russell Gibson said.</p>
<p>Asked how many may still be trapped, he said: &#8220;It could be another hundred &#8211; it could be more.&#8221; Supt Gibson said 39 bodies had been identified at a temporary morgue at the central police station.</p>
<p>Prime minister John Key said at least 75 people had been killed, and Supt Gibson said the final figure &#8220;will be considerably higher than that&#8221;.</p>
<p>Rescuers are concentrating on at least a dozen buildings that collapsed or were badly damaged. Urban search and rescue co-ordinator Paul Burt said at least 32 trapped people had been rescued from collapsed buildings overnight, and several more bodies had also been recovered.</p>
<p>&#8220;People were covered in rubble, covered in several tons of concrete,&#8221; said web designer Nathaniel Boehm, who was outside on his lunch break when the quake struck. He saw the eaves of buildings cascade onto the street, burying people below. &#8220;It was horrific,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Shopping centre worker Tom Brittenden told of how he had helped pull victims from the rubble in the immediate aftermath of the quake. &#8220;There was a lady outside we tried to free with a child,&#8221; Mr Brittenden told National Radio. &#8220;A big bit of concrete or brick had fallen on her and she was holding her child. She was gone. The baby was taken away.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thousands of people in the city moved into temporary shelters at schools and community halls. &#8220;It is just a scene of utter devastation,&#8221; said Mr Key, the prime minister, after rushing to the city within hours of the quake. &#8220;We may well be witnessing New Zealand&#8217;s darkest day.&#8221;</p>
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