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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/no-bodies-in-christchurch-cathedral.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Rescuers declared said no-one died in the rubble of Christchurch cathedral" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-no-bodies-in-christchurch-cathedral.jpg" alt="Rescuers declared said no-one died in the rubble of Christchurch cathedral"/></a></p>
<p>Searchers have declared that no-one had died in the rubble of Christchurch&#8217;s cathedral &#8211; a rare piece of good news in the final days of a grim recovery operation following an earthquake that devastated New Zealand&#8217;s second-largest city and killed at least 165 people.</p>
<p>Authorities had feared that as many as 22 people were inside the Christchurch Cathedral&#8217;s stone bell tower when it was toppled by a magnitude 6.3 quake on February 22.</p>
<p>Police Superintendent Sandra Manderson said urban search and rescue teams had completed their excavation of the area and confirmed that no one was trapped inside what had been a popular tourist attraction.</p>
<p>&#8220;Urban search and rescue (teams) have cleared the whole area &#8230; and they&#8217;ve found no bodies,&#8221; she told National Radio.</p>
<p>The Dean of Christchurch Rev Peter Beck has been advised and was &#8220;absolutely elated&#8221;, she said.</p>
<p>Manderson said she hoped that the surprise good news would bring down the estimated death toll of the disaster from as high as 240 to around 220. She said she was investigating what the estimate of 22 people in the tower had been based on.</p>
<p>She also announced that the confirmed death toll had risen to 165 after two bodies were recovered on Friday from one of the worst-hit structures, the Canterbury Television building.</p>
<p>Beck said that from the time the earthquake devastated Christchurch&#8217;s city centre on a busy weekday afternoon, he suspected that there would be multiple casualties under the ruins of the 130-year-old Anglican tower.</p>
<p>Authorities officially ended the search and rescue phase of the recovery operation in Christchurch on Thursday, saying there was no chance that anyone else would be pulled alive from the debris of the quake that demolished or irreparably damaged one-third of the buildings in the city centre. Police have said the search for bodies will not continue much longer.</p>
<p>Just 26 of the 165 bodies have been publicly identified. Authorities say the identification process is slow and painstaking because of the extreme nature of the injuries caused to some of those caught in collapsing buildings.</p>
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