Rescuers abandon bid to save trapped students

Rescuers in the earthquake stricken city of Christchurch on Wednesday again rejected the offer for the victims of Canterbury Television (CTV) said that the construction of structural damage "was not able to survive."

"CTV was the number of foreign students to do it," said police Commander Dave Lowry. "We do not believe that the site is now live. The services have deteriorated during the rescue at the stage where we are now feels as if it could collapse.

Xinhua news agency reported that two Chinese and a student in Taiwan has been shelling. "The sad fact is that we are moving our resources on this site to other sites, which have a higher chance of finding survivors," he said.

The survivors, meanwhile, remained in the rubble with rescue workers identified seven sites most likely to find people alive.Ann Bodkin has been rescued alive from the debris of Pyne Gould Corporation to the applause of the rescue teams went after 24 hours trapped under his desk. Another 14 people remain trapped in the building, including a woman identified as Anna Voss, also took under his desk, which managed to call the rescuers and the media on your mobile phone.

"A few hours ago, I thought I had it," Ms. Voss said New Zealand's TV3 network. "I thought it was" goodbye Ann '. "

"I managed to twist a little because I could not breathe. Now I have a bit of air here. I called my children to say goodbye. My daughter cried and I cried because I thought 'that's all." We must say that I love. "

She said she was unaware of what was happening and she waited to be rescued.

"I do not want to give up - I am here now to kill me," he said.

Of the 10 Japanese students were missing believed to be trapped in the ruins of King's College of Education, which is building Pyne Gould.

Gary Moore, who was trapped on the 12th floor of the building of 17 storeys Forsyth Barr in Christchurch, told CNN of his five-hour ordeal as he waited for a crane and cradle to choose 20 people from the affected building .

"To say I was relieved would be an understatement," Mr. Moore told CNN by phone. "There were about a dozen powerful aftershocks, and our fear was that another major shock would further compromise the building ".

"We've seen other people being rescued by the window and had to have faith that the building would do. It's been a long wait."

He said that the two stairwells in the building had collapsed and that he and 19 others took the floor so that other replicas sent rubble and debris cascading into the void.

"People were very unstable," he said. "We spend our time looking out the window and save when the aftershocks hit. I feel very lucky to be alive."