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Death toll could be as high as 190, fears nazim |
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Updated at:
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PST, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
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QUETTA: Death toll caused by earthquake in Ziarat valley can cross a figure of 190 as rescue teams have rushed volunteers to some villages where dozens of people are buried under debris of collapsed houses, District Naib Nazim Ziarat Momin Khan Dummar told the official news agency.
“I personally visited Waam, Kann and other areas where 28 people of only two families had perished under debris” he said adding that reports coming from Killi Sra Kheizai “are dreadful where scores of inhabitants are still under debris”.
The nazim added that it was difficult to find out the real figure at this moment as most of the dead had already been buried by the locals.
Meanwhile, district nazim Pishin Molvi Kamalud Din visited Killi Khoshab in Khanozai which had been destroyed completely by the Wednesday morning earthquake.
In the meantime, medical teams of Pak Army, FC, Health Department continued treating the injured at Ziarat district hospital.
The army helicopters shifted 16 serious injured to the CMH Quetta and also rushed a dozen of volunteers to Killi Sra Kheizai for rescue and relief operations. |
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