Death Toll in Pakistan Up to Nearly 40,000

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Death Toll in Pakistan Up to Nearly 40,000


Saturday October 15, 2005 12:46 PM

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By ZARAR KHAN

Associated Press Writer

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The death toll in Pakistan's devastating earthquake rose to nearly 40,000 on Saturday, while rain, snow and frigidly cold weather compounded the misery of millions of homeless victims.

Heavy rain began falling early Saturday in many quake-hit towns and snow fell in the surrounding mountains, disrupting efforts to help an estimated 2 million people lacking shelter ahead of the harsh Himalayan winter. Downpours earlier in the week had grounded helicopters and stopped trucks loaded with relief supplies.

Helicopter relief flights - which have been ferrying supplies into the quake zone and ferrying out the injured - were halted for about an hour and a half Saturday morning before being resumed, except to the northern town of Balakot where the weather was particularly bad. That left hundreds of injured, cold and terrified people waiting by the helipad, hoping for the weather to clear.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5345878,00.html

[iamjoy]

1. How Awful

:cry:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Still no word of New Orleans dead.

[CountAllVotes]

3. and you never will know

....

:kick:

[redsoxliberal]

4. 1000 or so

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. In this context the number itself isn't important.

A media which loves numbers, especially concerning death tolls, is mum about American deaths for weeks. Yet this Death TallyTM takes a handful of hours.

[cliss]

6. I just heard on the Laura Flanders show

(AAR) that over 54,000 people have now died. They're expecting this figure to double in a few days.

Disaster.