Rescuers still working in New Zealand after quake

Rescuers worked to free survivors from the rubble in New Zealand on Wednesday. The historic town of Christchurch was hit with a six-point-three magnitude earthquake during lunchtime on Tuesday. Seventy-five people have died. The death toll is expected to rise.

This is the deadliest natural disaster in New Zealand in the last eighty years. As many as three hundred people are still missing after the quake hit. Rescuers fear that dozens of survivors may be trapped inside collapsed buildings. Teams performed amputations to free some of the one hundred and twenty people who have been rescued.

The quake is the second one to strike Christchurch in five months.

Written by: Sarah Deshaies