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Work to identify earthquake victims completed

September 8, 2011, 2:05 pm

Acting Chief Coroner Gordon Matenga and Police Inspector Mark Harrison have announced that all possible Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) work that can be carried out to identify the remaining victims of the 22 February Christchurch earthquake has now been completed.

"Any traces of DNA have been destroyed by the extremely high temperatures caused by the fire in the CTV building