No Hope of More New Zealand Quake Survivors, Official Says

[Jazzy]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Rescuers officially gave up hope of finding more survivors of New Zealand's devastating earthquake, saying Thursday that no one trapped in rubble when the disaster struck nine days earlier could still be alive.



The news was a blow to the families of around 200 people listed as missing, many of whom clung to faltering hopes for good news despite more than a week of silence from beneath the piles of debris that still litter the city of Christchurch.



We now face the reality that there is no chance that anyone could have survived this long, Civil Defense Emergency Management national controller John Hamilton told a news conference Thursday.



Sadly, there becomes a point where the response effort shifts in focus from rescue to body recovery, he said. We have now reached that point.

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[Kasynlie]

Just like to point out that they are not ruling out the possibility of a miracle survivor.

 

[Bryd0]

Oh god... New Zealand has suffered a lot from the past few weeks. My heart goes out to all those who have lost their lives from the devastating earthquake, and their grieving relatives and friends too