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Authorities Revise Death Toll, Missing in New Zealand Quake

   VOA News  February 27, 2011
   Student   volunteers  assisting  in  post-quake  clean-up  efforts  in
   Christchurch, February 27, 2011

Photo: AFP

   Student   volunteers  assisting  in  post-quake  clean-up  efforts  in
   Christchurch, February 27, 2011

   Grieving  New  Zealanders  held  church services Sunday for victims of
   Tuesday's devastating earthquake, as authorities raised the death toll
   to 147.
   At  the  same  time,  police  said more than 50 people remain missing,