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PAKISTAN EQ DEATH TOLL NOW 54,000 !!!!!!!!................................................................................................................. |
www.ctv.ca/
Pakistan earthquake death toll at 54,000
CTV.ca News Staff
Pakistani officials have increased their estimated death toll from last
week's earthquake to more than 54,000.
Poor weather conditions could drive that number even higher, as some of
the two million left homeless by the disaster struggle to survive.
At least 40,000 people have died in Kashmir alone, a spokesperson for
the top official in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir told The Associated
Press. He added that more than 1,350 people died in Indian-controlled
Kashmir, and roughly 13,000 people in Pakistan's North West Frontier
Province.
However, Pakistani officials in Islamabad said the death toll is
39,422.
The country's relief commissioner, Maj.-Gen. Farooq Ahmed Khan, told
Pakistani television that the toll could climb much higher before it
stops.
"Some people fear that the death toll could be 100,000 and they may be
right," he told reporters during a news conference. Bad weather would
only contribute to the increase.
"There are bound to be casualties because of bad weather. How much, I
don't know," he said.
Khan also said that 29,000 tents and 118,000 blankets had been
distributed, but that 100,000 tents were still needed. Medical supplies
such as syringes, painkillers and antibiotics were also needed.
Early Sunday, a Pakistani helicopter flying an aid mission to
earthquake survivors crashed in bad weather, killing all six military
personnel on board.
A senior army official said Sunday the MI-17 transport helicopter was
returning home late Saturday after dropping off relief workers.
"The speculation is that it could be the hazards of flight. It could be
some technical fault, or it could be some isolated weather in the
area," said Brigadier Khalid Mahmood of the Pakistani army.
The helicopter went down in the town of Bagh, one of the areas hardest
hit by the massive magnitude-7.6 quake that struck on Oct. 8.
Torrential downpours and clouded weather severely disrupted relief
flights on Saturday, and the bad weather continued Sunday.
The U.S. military said it had suspended its helicopter flights.
"Nobody's going out today," said Col. Mark McKearn, who is charge of
U.S. relief flight operations.
A 13-member team of doctors from the U.S. planned to fly to the
affected area from Lahore on Sunday, but it was unclear whether they
would be delayed by the weather, state news agency APP reported.
The team, including Pakistani doctors practicing in the U.S., was
bringing tents, medicine and hospital equipment.
U.S. State Department official Geoffrey Krassy said many in the quake
zone remain cut off from aid.
"About 20 percent of the populated areas have yet to be reached," said
Krassy, who normally conducts aerial patrols along the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border, watching for narcotics smugglers. His unit
has been redeployed to provide relief to earthquake victims.
The weather has only added to the suffering of millions in devastated
regions.
Sajid Hussain, a doctor in Bagh, waded Sunday through ankle-deep water
wearing a pair of plastic sandals, and green surgical scrubs rolled up
to his knees. He was heading toward a truck doubling as his operating
theater.
Pounding rain overnight flooded the field of the boys' college where he
had set up, and a layer of water covered the floor of the tent where
several patients lay waiting for surgery.
"It has been a tragedy and now this rain has made everything so much
more horrible for people," Hussain said.
Relief workers have not been able to provide enough temporary shelters
for town residents, let alone for the refugees who have streamed in
from the mountains seeking aid.
In a sign of cooperation between two longtime rivals, however, India
gave Pakistan permission late Saturday to send relief helicopters into
the 1.6-kilometre-wide no-fly-zone on the Pakistani side of the
cease-fire line that divides Kashmir. Normally, both countries keep
their helicopters 1.6 km back from the line.
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