Police Release More Names Following Christchurch Earthquake

(Newsroom America) -- The death toll from the magnitude 6.3 earthquake which hit Christchurch on February 22nd has risen to 166 but is expected to rise further as police name more victims from the quake.

Emergency workers are still recovering bodies from the rubble of some buildings as power and water is restored to most of the city.

Police have released more names of deceased from the Christchurch earthquake and the full list of those named so far is below.

* Jayden ANDREWS-HOWLAND, age 15, from Aranui, Christchurch * Dr Maysoon Mahdi ABBAS, age 61 * Linda Isobel ARNOLD, 57 of Christchurch * Melanie Jane BROWN, 54, of Christchurch * Dr Dominic Joseph Gerard BELL, 45 of Christchurch * Andrew Christian Ross CRAIG, age 46 of Christchurch * Stephen COCHRANE, aged 43, of Bromley, Christchurch * Ian Neville CALDWELL, 47 of Christchurch * Donald Ashby COWEY, 82 of Christchurch * Betty Irene Dickson, 82, of Christchurch * Joanna Clare Didham, 35, of Christchurch * Paul Clarence DUNLOP, age 67, of Rolleston, Selwyn District * Maureen Valerie FLETCHER, 75 of Christchurch * Jaime Robert McDowell GILBERT, age 22, of Christchurch * Baxtor GOWLAND, age 5 months of Christchurch * Natasha Sarah HADFIELD, age 38, of Kaiapoi * Jayden HARRIS, age 8 months, of Christchurch * Yoshiko Hirauchi, 61 of Japan * Christopher Grant HOMAN, 34, of Christchurch * Gabi INGEL, age 22, Israel * Ofer LEVY, age 22, Israel * Haruthaya LUANGSURAPEESAKUL, age 32, of Thailand * Scott William Emerson LUCY, age 38 * Wai Fong LAU, 87 of Christchurch * Catherine McNicol LUNNEY, 62 of Christchurch * Matthew Stuart McEACHEN, age 25 * Owen Thomas McKENNA, 40 of Christchurch * Ofer Binyamin MIZRAHI, 22 of Israel * Melissa Ann NEALE, 41, of Wellington * Joseph Tehau POHIO, age 40, of Christchurch * Joseph Stuart ROUTLEDGE (known as Stuart), 74 of Christchurch * Lucy ROUTLEDGE, 74 of Christchurch * Jeff Pelesa SANFT, age 32 of Christchurch * Dr Allan Alexander SINCLAIR, 45, of Christchurch * Neil Glyn STOCKER, age 58 * Christopher Patrick SMITH, 48 of Selwyn * Gregory James TOBIN, 25 of Christchurch * Shane Robert TOMLIN, 42 of Christchurch * Owen Morris WRIGHT, age 40, of Lyttelton * Graham WEILD, age 77 * Joan Dorothy WEILD, age 76 * Murray John WOOD, 56, of Christchurch * Lisa Patricia WILLEMS, 43 of Christchurch * Gilhwan YU, 24, from Korea

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