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...response to last Saturday's earthquake in northern Pakistan, the U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan quickly diverted eight helicopters-cargo-lifting twin-engine Chinooks and sleek Blackhawks-to help with relief work in the Pakistani Himalayas...
...into the mountains to dig for survivors in villages that melted away like sand castles when the earthquake hit. McFadden and his colleagues dumped out tents, medical supplies and food to desperate mobs of survivors who lunged into the chopper, fighting each other for the relief bundles. Some Pakistani officials say that several times, desperate survivors denied a place on a crowded chopper tried clinging to the runners of the bird as it lifted off, nearly causing a crash...
...news from the area may get worse: Some Pakistani officials are saying the death toll could exceed 50,000. Word is starting to reach Balakot from higher up in the Himalayas, where dozens of villages went tumbling down the mountainsides - it may take days, or even weeks, before rescuers can reach them...
...When the Pakistani army finally arrived on the third day, they found the local people furious over the delay. The soldiers were cursed, and at one school where 200 children lay buried under concrete slabs, the parents hurled stones at the troops as they tried, days too late, to clear away the rubble. By day four, enough troops had arrived to set up field clinics and start evacuating the injured by helicopter. Hundreds waited for evacuation, and each helicopter could carry only a few stretchers...
...their fields, in any spare patch of earth. And there's 67 more we know of still under the rubble. And then there's all the soldiers." He points to the ridge line which encircles Kamal Kote and which marks the heavily fortified Line of Control separating Indian and Pakistani Kashmir. "Hundreds of dead bodies," he says. "Thousands. They're surrounding you." And by candlelight, he finds us a place to sleep on the soft, shaking earth...