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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/new-zealand-disaster-worst-ever.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Recovery workers sift through the rubble of the earthquake-damaged CTV building in Christchurch (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-new-zealand-disaster-worst-ever.jpg" alt="Recovery workers sift through the rubble of the earthquake-damaged CTV building in Christchurch (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister said the Christchurch quake may be the country&#8217;s worst disaster ever, as officials warned that a third of the city centre&#8217;s buildings may have to be destroyed.</p>
<p>Engineers and planners said the city&#8217;s decimated central area may be completely unusable for months to come and that at least a third of the buildings must be demolished and rebuilt after last Tuesday&#8217;s 6.3-magnitude quake. The casualty toll stands at 145 dead and more than 200 missing.</p>
<p>John Key said the government would announce an aid package on Monday for an estimated 50,000 people who will be out of work for months due to the closure of the city centre. Mr Key, who spent some time talking to families who lost loved ones in the disaster, called for two minutes of silence next Tuesday to remember both the victims and the ordeal of the survivors.</p>
<p>&#8220;This may be New Zealand&#8217;s single-most tragic event,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Christchurch mayor Bob Parker assured relatives of the missing &#8211; including people from several countries who have converged on this southern New Zealand city of 350,000 &#8211; that every effort was being made to locate any remaining survivors of Tuesday&#8217;s 6.3-magnitude quake.</p>
<p>No-one was found alive overnight as a multi-national team of more than 600 rescuers continued scouring the city&#8217;s central business district, although a paramedic reported hearing voices in one destroyed building early on Saturday, Police Supt Russel Gibson said.</p>
<p>Police have said up to 120 bodies may be entombed in the ruins of the CTV building alone, where dozens of foreign students from an international school were believed to be trapped. Still, Supt Gibson said rescuers were not completely ruling out good news. &#8220;I talked to experts who say we&#8217;ve worked on buildings like this overseas and we get miracles. New Zealand deserves a few miracles,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The King&#8217;s Education language school released a list of missing people presumed in the building: nine teachers and 51 students &#8211; 26 Japanese, 14 Chinese, six Filipinos, three Thais, one South Korean and one Czech. An additional 20 students were listed with &#8220;status unknown&#8221;.</p>
<p>The death toll rose on Saturday to 145, Police Supt David Cliff said, adding that: &#8220;We do expect that number to rise.&#8221; Some 226 people remained missing. At Christchurch&#8217;s cathedral, workers had just begun work on its ruined bell tower late on Friday when fresh aftershocks sent more masonry tumbling from the building.</p>
<p>The city&#8217;s central business district will take several months to recover, Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee said, adding that &#8220;most of the services, in fact all of the services that are offered in the CBD will need to relocate elsewhere&#8221;.</p>
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