Pakistan rocked
A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted parts of the Balochistan province in Pakistan on Wednesday morning, leaving about 170 people dead in its wake, officials said.
“There is great destruction,” said Ziarat mayor Dilawar Kakar. “Not a single house is intact.” In the village of Sohi, a reporter saw the bodies of 17 people killed in one collapsed house and 12 from another. Distraught residents were digging a mass grave in which to bury them.
“We can't dig separate graves for each of them, as the number of deaths is high and still people are searching in the rubble of many other homes,” said Shamsullah Khan, a village elder.
Other survivors sat stunned in the open, with little more than the clothes in which they had been sleeping.
Hospitals in the nearby town of Kawas and the provincial capital Quetta, 50 miles (80 kilometers) away, were flooded with the dead and injured. One patient, Raz Mohammed, said he was awoken by the sound of his children crying before he felt a jolt.
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“There is great destruction,” said Ziarat mayor Dilawar Kakar. “Not a single house is intact.” In the village of Sohi, a reporter saw the bodies of 17 people killed in one collapsed house and 12 from another. Distraught residents were digging a mass grave in which to bury them.
“We can't dig separate graves for each of them, as the number of deaths is high and still people are searching in the rubble of many other homes,” said Shamsullah Khan, a village elder.
Other survivors sat stunned in the open, with little more than the clothes in which they had been sleeping.
Hospitals in the nearby town of Kawas and the provincial capital Quetta, 50 miles (80 kilometers) away, were flooded with the dead and injured. One patient, Raz Mohammed, said he was awoken by the sound of his children crying before he felt a jolt.
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Labels: Balochistan province, collapsed house, destruction, earthquake, graves, Pakistan, Richter scale, survivors, Ziarat mayor Dilawar Kakar
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