Quake rescue teams rush to Hindu Kush Death toll in Pakistan may climb to 30,000

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: October 10, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Somini Sengupta
International Herald Tribune
10-10-2005
Reporting for this article was contributed by Carlotta Gall and Aziz-u-Rahman Gulbahari in Kabul, Yusuf Jameel in Srinagar, Mohammed Khan in Peshawar, Salman Masood in Islamabad, and Kenneth Chang in New York. Katrin Bennhold of the International Herald Tribune in New York also contributed reporting.*Rescue teams mounted an intensive effort Sunday to reach survivors of a powerful earthquake that struck in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan early Saturday, sending tremors across South Asia and killing thousands.Efforts to gauge the ...

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