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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/race-against-time-after-earthquake.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-race-against-time-after-earthquake.jpg" alt="Emergency services search the rumble for survivors of the collapsed CTV building in Christchurch's business district (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Rescuers have been searching for any signs of life after an earthquake devastated one of New Zealand&#8217;s largest cities as Prime Minister John Key declared it a national disaster and analysts estimated its cost at up to 12 billion Australian dollars (£7.4 billion).</p>
<p>Hundreds of troops, police and emergency workers raced against time and aftershocks which threatened to collapse more buildings in Christchurch. They picked gingerly through the ruins, poking heat-seeking cameras into gaps between tumbles of bricks and sending sniffer dogs over concrete slabs.</p>
<p>Teams rushed in from Australia, the United States, Britain and Japan and elsewhere in Asia, along with a military field hospital and workers to help repair power, water and phone lines which were damaged in all corners of the city of some 350,000 people.</p>
<p>The news was grim at the Canterbury Television building, a seven-storey concrete-and-glass structure which housed the regional TV network. An English language school used by young visitors from Japan and South Korea was also located there.</p>
<p>The heavy concrete floors lay piled on top of one another, its central stairwell tower still standing, but leaning precariously.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t believe this site is now survivable,&#8221; police operations commander Inspector Dave Lawry told reporters. He said rescuers were moving to sites which were less dangerous and where there was more hope for survivors.</p>
<p>Canterbury TV chairman Nick Smith said 15 of his employees were still missing inside the collapsed building, including morning anchorwoman Donna Manning.</p>
<p>Also among the missing were 10 Japanese language students from a group of at least 23 students and teachers who were believed to have been in the building, said Teppei Asano, a Japanese official monitoring the situation.</p>
<p>Not far away, cheers erupted as rescuers pulled a woman from another crumpled office tower. Ann Bodkin was reunited with her husband after a painstaking rescue from the twisted metal and concrete remains of the Pyne Gould Guinness building. </p>
<p>Police Superintendent Russell Gibson said early on Thursday that the last survivor had been pulled out at 2pm on Wednesday, and no trapped quake survivors had been found since.</p>
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