Hatem’s Diaries

Ramadan was so busy for me that I didn’t watch the news. A major earthquake on Saturday morning measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale has devastated cities, towns and villages across northern Pakistan. The official death toll in Pakistan reached 19,369 yesterday with over 42,000 people injured, but casualties are expected to climb further as rescue workers reach outlying areas. Hundreds more were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The worst affected in both countries were the poor who lived in cheap housing built of mud brick and wood.

This is few links talking about the disaster :

• http://www.dawn.com/2005/10/10/top1.htm
• http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/index.html
• http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/10/10/quake.asia/index.html
• http://www.asiantribune.com/show_article.php?id=2758

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