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Update:
Humanitarian crisis worsens in quake region
In Pakistan, thousands of quake survivors in the mountainous north face death from cold or disease. Many of them are now homeless and cannot be treated for pneumonia or infections. Aid workers have made a desperate appeal for tents to be sent.
Even in the camps where the injured are being treated, the situation is difficult due to torrential rain.
The official death toll from the earthquake now stands at almost 40-thousand in Pakistan, and in India the disaster has claimed at least 14 hundred lives.
A Pakistan army rescue helicopter has crashed northeast of Bagh, one of the worst-hit towns. Six people were killed.
(rnw.nl)
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