A Romanian woman was among the missing people following the Tuesday earthquake in New Zealand, a Romanian priest in the affected town of Christchurch has told Romanian public radio.
Father Emanuel Crainic said there was one missing person from the Romanian community there - a woman teaching English who was in one of the severely hit building. But he said hope was not gone as people were still being dug out of the rubble.
Authorities have declared a state of emergency in the region where the strongest earthquake affecting New Zealand in the last eight decades took place and intervention teams were still looking for survivors. The latest toll on Wednesday morning amounted to about 400 dead and wounded.
