Picture special: 'A black day for this shaken city' as Christchurch lies in ruins
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 10:57 PM on 22nd February 2011
Last updated at 10:57 PM on 22nd February 2011
At least 65 are dead and scores missing under rubble after an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck the Christchurch suburb of Lyttelton at 12.51pm, New Zealand time.
Buildings, including the famous cathedral, were destroyed and rescuers were frantically trying to reach those trapped inside. Mayor Bob Parker described it as 'black day for this shaken city'.
Rescue workers look for victims on the collapsed Pyne Gould Guinness building
Rescue workers search for survivors through debris in central Christchurch after the earthquake struck 5km below the surface
A bus covered in building debris in Christchurch
The earthquake damaged Carlton Hotel in Christchurch
A building's side is caved in at the side of a street in Christchurch
Apocalyptic scenes in Christchurch were reminiscent of 9/11
The city's iconic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament lost its steeple in the quake which measured 6.3 on the Richter scale
A woman talks to a policeman trying to help her from the cathedral while friends hug after their narrow escape in a shopping mall
People walk across a buckled road in Christchurch
A car is seen crushed by debris outsidea home in Christchurch
Rescue workers work to extinguish a fire at a collapsed building of King's Education in Christchurch
Rubble lies strewn in Manchester Street in central Christchurch
A car is crushed by fallen concrete after the earthquake
Oxford Terrace Baptist church is reduced to a pile of bricks
Another church hit was the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral, which lost a dome
A woman is stretchered away after being rescued and a group of office workers unsteady on their feet make their way home from a damaged building
An overheld view of a road with collapsed buildings along its entire length
Rescuers climb across rubble to attend to a women found alive in the the collapsed multi level office block on Madras Street
A brave worker is winched out of an office block window to safety to Grabs from footage of the
Streets are flooeded after the earthquake burst pipes below the ground and water rose to the surface
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