Devastation in Pak unfolds: 90,000 dead - Thousands of children still trapped in collapsed houses
Balaji Reddy
Oct. 11, 2005

It is the worst earthqauke in South Asia with continuing aftershocks one after the other. Only 20% victims could be reached by the recuers as of this time. Death toll can rise to hundreds of thousands in Pakistan.

The full magnitude of the devastation caused by yesterday's killer earthquake unfolded today with death figure in Pakistan being estimated at upto 90,000 and could rise further as rescuers struggled to reach inaccessible areas.

A series of aftershocks continued to rock parts of Pakistan and India in the early hours on Sunday, a day after a massive earthquake wreaked havoc in the region.

As rescue and relief efforts picked up momentum in quake-hit areas, a tremor measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale shook Kutch region at 2:18 am. The region had suffered large-scale destruction in a monster earthquake in January, 2001. Another quake of 6.0 magnitudes shook northern parts of Pakistan at 2:43 am, the Met Department said in a release. About 45 aftershocks have rocked Pakistan since a 7.6 quake killed thousands of people, the chief of Pakistan's meteorological department said. Seven aftershocks measuring over 5.0 on the Richter scale were recorded on Saturday after the tremor measuring 7.4 rocked the region at 0920 IST. All the aftershocks were epicentred near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. According to Met officials, aftershocks were a normal phenomenon after a major earthquake and these were likely to continue for several days.

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