No bodies in New Zealand quake cathedral

Searchers today declared that no one had died in the rubble of Christchurch’s cathedral – a rare piece of good news in the final days of a grim recovery operation following an earthquake that devastated New Zealand’s second-largest city and killed at least 165 people.

Authorities had feared that as many as 22 people were inside the Christchurch Cathedral’s stone bell tower when it was toppled by a magnitude 6.3 quake on February 22.