Keep looking for quake survivors, RP asks N. Zealand
By Michaela P. del Callar 02/25/2011Philippine officials yesterday appealed to New Zealand rescuers to keep searching for survivors of this week’s killer quake, saying 14 Filipinos were feared buried under the rubble.
Twelve of the missing were believed to have been inside the Canterbury Television (CTV) building that collapsed when the 6.3-magnitude quake struck Christchurch city last Tuesday, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesman Ed Malaya said.
Rescuers announced they have started to shift from rescue to retrieval operations as hopes dim in finding more survivors at the CTV building, which housed a TV station and a language school for foreign students, three days after the disaster.
But Malaya said Philippine officials in Christchurch have appealed to New Zealand to resume
rescue operations since there is an indication that the most of the 14 missing Filipinos are still alive..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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