Death Toll is 113 atm I see, guess be lots more than that in the coming days/weeks.
This was kinda scary read it before.
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Brisbane urologist Stuart Philip was faced with one such horrible dilemma: amputate a man's legs using only a hacksaw and a Leatherman knife amid a sea of debris and dust, or wait and hope for a miracle.
But in the chaos immediately following the Christchurch earthquake, grim reality won out.
"It's a hard decision to make, to cut a man's leg off . . . (but) the way he was crushed, we felt his legs wouldn't have survived anyway, and he wasn't going to survive if he wasn't extracted," Dr Philip said. "He knew he didn't have a choice and he had to get out of there."
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