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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/specialists-to-identify-quake-dead.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A car that was crushed by falling rubble during Tuesday's earthquake killing its occupant (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-specialists-to-identify-quake-dead.jpg" alt="A car that was crushed by falling rubble during Tuesday's earthquake killing its occupant (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A British taskforce of disaster victim identification (DVI) experts is due to arrive in New Zealand on Monday to help identify the victims of the Christchurch earthquake.</p>
<p>With the death toll standing at 146, officials have only been able to name six of the dead due to the extent of the injuries sustained during the magnitude-6.3 disaster.</p>
<p>Two Britons are confirmed to be among the victims, with the number expected to rise in the coming days.</p>
<p>However, New Zealand authorities must formally identify them before their bodies can be repatriated, a Foreign Office source said. It is hoped this will take place early next week.</p>
<p>The British High Commission said the eight-strong DVI team, which includes a pathologist, odontologist, and finger print expert, will assist experts from New Zealand and Australia. Two members of the taskforce will arrive in the South Island city on Monday afternoon, before being joined by the rest of their colleagues later in the week.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Commission spokesman Chris Harrington confirmed that two British nationals, a male tourist and woman who lives in Christchurch, are recovering in hospital with serious, but not life threatening injuries sustained in the tremor. Both are over 50.</p>
<p>A British woman has been discharged from hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack following the quake, added Mr Harrington. Families of the 200 people still missing in Christchurch spent another agonising day without news, clinging to the hope of a miracle.</p>
<p>Among the British families waiting for news of their loved ones caught up in the disaster was 44-year-old Jo Morley. whose brother, Phil Coppeard, from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, is among the missing Britons. She was taking comfort from the miraculous tales of survival following the Haiti earthquake. &#8220;Of course you still hope, as anybody would do,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what we have to think.&#8221;</p>
<p>A British specialist rescue team arrived in the devastated city on Friday to help search for survivors among the flattened buildings. Deployed after New Zealand accepted an offer of help from the British Government, they have been working among the ruins of the Pyne Gould Corporation building in the centre of the city, using acoustic listening devices to pick up any sound of life.</p>
<p>In Britain, the victims were commemorated with a minute&#8217;s silence by players and fans before Saturday&#8217;s Six Nations rugby clash between England and France at Twickenham. British victim Gregory Tobin, 25, a chef, from Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, had been on a round-the-world trip and was believed to have been working temporarily at a garage in Christchurch when the devastation struck. The identity of the other British victim, also male, has not been confirmed.</p>
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