09 October 2005

pakistan devastated


Villagers help an injured woman to walk to a hospital in Balakot.
AP Photo by B.K.Bangash.

BALAKOT, Pakistan (AP) - 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. Pakistani officials said the death toll ranged between nearly 20,000 and 30,000.

read the latest on the AP wire.

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