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A five-month-old baby boy today became the first victim of the Christchurch earthquake to be buried after the New Zealand town was reduced to rubble in the country's worst natural disaster in 80 years.

Baxtor Gowland was also the youngest victim of the New Zealand quake, after he was hit by falling masonry as he slept, and was laid to rest by scores of relatives.

Five days after the earthquake hit New Zealand, Jonathan Pearlman pieces together the dramatic events.

Rescue workers were today continuing the painstaking search for an Irish man trapped in a building destroyed in the New Zealand earthquake.

CHRISTCHURCH—Hopes faded of finding more survivors on Thursday in the collapsed downtown towers of New Zealand’s quake-shattered Christchurch, as officials said the death toll rose to 98 with grave fears for many of the 226 missing. Police said up to 120 bodies may still lie trapped in the tangled concrete and steel that was the Canterbury Television or CTV building, where dozens of students ...