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Death toll surpasses 30,000 in Asia quake
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-09 20:47
Villagers desperate to find survivors dug with bare hands Sunday through the
debris of a collapsed school where children had been heard crying beneath the
rubble after a massive earthquake killed more than 30,000 people in
Pakistani-controlled Kashmir alone.
Pakistani rescue workers remove a dead body
from rubble of 10-story apartment building that collapsed in the 7.6
magnitude earthquake a day earlier, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2005 in Islamabad,
Pakistan. The death toll from a huge earthquake that struck Pakistan,
India and Afghanistan rose above 30,000 on Sunday, the Pakistani army
spokesman said, as rescuers struggled to dig victims from destroyed
apartment buildings, schools and mud-brick homes.
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"I have been informed by my department that more than 30,000 people have died
in Kashmir," Tariq Mahmmod, communications minister for the Himalayan region,
told The Associated Press.
Saturday's magnitude-7.6 quake also struck India and Afghanistan, which
reported hundreds dead.
Pakistan's army called the earthquake the country's worst-ever disaster and
appealed for urgent help. Rival India, the United States, the United Nations,
Britain, Russia, China, Turkey, Japan and Germany all offered
assistance.
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