WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A strong quake hit New Zealand’s second-biggest city of Christchurch today for the second time in five months, toppling buildings, causing “multiple fatalities,” trapping people beneath rubble and sparking fires.
Local TV showed bodies being pulled out of rubble strewn around the city center, though it was unclear whether any of them were alive, but police reported “multiple fatalities” after the 6.3 magnitude quake struck during the busy lunchtime.
Unlike last year’s even stronger tremor, which struck early
