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Insurgents threaten quake relief effort
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The death toll from an earthquake in southwestern Pakistan has reached 515, a provincial official said yesterday, as insurgent attacks threaten relief efforts and survivors complain of lack of shelter from the scorching sun.
Babar Yaqoob, the chief secretary of Baluchistan, gave the updated death toll as he toured the destroyed region of Awaran, where the 7.7-magnitude quake struck on Tuesday.
Bodies were still being discovered in houses whose mud walls and wooden roof beams had collapsed.
“My daughter was killed when my house collapsed — I was also inside my house but manage to run out,” said 70-year-old Gul Jan. “We are sitting under the scorching sun and need shelter.”
In Labash village near Awaran, more than half of the 3,000 houses have collapsed and those still standing have wide cracks.
“Everywhere we go people are asking for tents,” legislator Abdul Qadeer Baloch said.
The arid area is also a stronghold of separatist Baluch insurgents, who have twice shot at helicopters carrying military officials in charge of responding to the disaster.
On Thursday, two rockets narrowly missed a helicopter carrying the general in charge of the National Disaster Management Agency and yesterday two helicopters carrying aid were fired upon, the military said.
“There is a law and order situation here but ... we will get to every last person,” said Lieutenant General Nasir Janjua, the highest ranking military official in the province.
Aid must travel through mountains held by insurgents.
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