According to Hawk's Bay Today, a New Zealand circulation, the number of bodies in the temporary morgue has risen to 113 as rain starts to fall on the fourth day of the Christchurch earthquake rescue mission.
After the earthquake struck on Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011, nobody has been rescued from the ruined buildings alive.
Rescuers are still on the go inspite of the deteriorating weather condition but if the weather continues to get sour, rescuers could not continue because it would risk their lives.
Up to 122 people are unaccounted for in the Canterbury TV building, including 90 international students and staff from private training school King's Education.
Hope has faded for survivors at the flattened Pyne Gould Corp building, and police estimate between 16 and 22 people were killed by falling masonry at the ChristChurch Cathedral buildings.
Unknown number of people are still trapped under collapsed buildings including foreign students. 228 people have been reported missing.
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