WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A series of aftershocks shook the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch on Monday, bringing down at least one building and briefly trapping two people inside a damaged church. Power was cut to about 10,000 homes in the city’s eastern suburbs, and dust billowed from the cordoned-off city center devastated in February’s major earthquake. More than 80 percent of the building’s in the central city’s “red zone” were damaged in that disaster, including more than 700 that cannot be salvaged. “We are being enveloped with dust. It is very, very scary,” Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker told New Zealand’s National Radio. Rocks tumbled from hills in the eastern…
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