PAKISTAN: Following days of bad weather, relief operations resume in Pakistan, bringing much-needed aid to thousands of earthquake victims

Record ID: 872751

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Following days of bad weather, relief operations resume in Pakistan, bringing much-needed aid to thousands of earthquake victims
  • Date: 17th October 2005
  • Summary: RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 17, 2005) (REUTERS) TARMAC WITH CARGO PLANE PARKED AND HELICOPTER LANDING BOXES OF GOODS BEING UNLOADED FROM AMERICAN CARGO PLANE AMERICAN MILITARY CREW STANDING ON TARMAC BLANKETS AND OTHER RELIEF GOODS BEING UNLOADED FROM TRUCK AND LOADED ONTO AMERICAN CHINOOK HELICOPTER MORE OF RELIEF GOODS BEING LOADED ONTO CHINOOK HELICOPTER
  • Embargoed: 1st November 2005 12:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
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  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: International Relations,Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVA9ZGP4D838KNOCVI0HANZPYEV0
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  • Story Text: Large-scale relief operations resumed at a military airbase in Rawalpindi on Monday (October 17) following days of bad weather which have hampered the delivery of much-needed food, blankets, tents, water and medicinal supplies. Tonnes of aid were being unloaded from cargo plans and transferred to helicopters which will fly to Muzaffarabad, the key staging points of relief operations. In Muzaffarabad, aid are loaded onto Pakistani military helicopters which will then deliver the supplies to various villages. These same helicopters ferry back injured victims who are then flown to Muzaffarabad or the more serious cases to the capital Islamabad.
    Doctors and aid officials have warned that Pakistan is facing a second wave of death with thousands of injured people still without treatment, living rough in inaccessible mountain villages as winter closes in fast. The official death toll from the quake is 38,000 in Pakistan, most of them in Pakistani Kashmir, but some local-level officials say they believe the toll is much higher. Aid workers say thousands of people injured in the earthquake remain stranded in the valley and in villages cut off by landslides, high up on the slopes. Helicopter operations were severely disrupted by bad weather at the weekend, with rain in the valleys and snow higher up the slopes, but Monday was clear over Muzaffarabad and helicopters were again clattering in and out of the city.

    FOREIGN AID RELIEF WORK
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