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New Zealand evacuates tourists from quake-hit town

 

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Wellington:New Zealand emergency services and defense personnel began evacuating hundreds of tourists and residents from a small South Island town amid more strong aftershocks on Tuesday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed two people.

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