Scoop Images: Two Minute Silence At Civic Square

Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 1:55 pm
Article: Scoop Images

Scoop Images: Two Minute Silence At Civic Square

Christchurch
earthquake vigil - Two minutes silence in Civic Square,
Wellington

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As part of a nationwide vigil in memory of those lost, a large crowd in Wellington's Civic Square observed two minutes' silence, one week after the Canterbury earthquake.

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