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Weather clears, aid pours into Pakistan
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-12 18:55

Helicopters flying in clear skies delivered aid to earthquake survivors Wednesday, a day after rain and hail grounded efforts.


Pakistani military load relief goods onto a U.S. helicopter for aid to earthquake survivors in the Kashmiri part of Pakistan at Chaklala airbase in Rawalpindi, on Wednesday Oct 12, 2005. Relief supplies from about 30 countries poured in for victims of Pakistan's worst earthquake Wednesday but hopes of finding survivors started to fade with the death toll already believed to be more than 35,000. [AP]

Relief supplies poured into Pakistan from about 30 countries, including from longtime archrival India.

Rescuers on Wednesday pulled a dust-covered 5-year-old out of the rubble, a shot of good news as hopes faded of finding other earthquake survivors. "I want to drink," the girl whispered.

Zarabe Shah's neighbors on Tuesday recovered the bodies of her father and two of her sisters. Her mother and another two sisters survived.

Many bodies were still buried beneath leveled buildings, and the United Nations warned of the threat of measles, cholera and diarrhea outbreaks among the millions of survivors.

The 7.6-magnitude quake on Saturday demolished whole communities, mostly in the Himalayan region of Kashmir. The U.N. estimated that some 4 million people have been affected, including 2 million who have lost their homes.

U.S., Pakistani, German and Afghan helicopters resumed aid flights suspended because of stormy weather. They brought food, medicines and other supplies to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan's portion of divided Kashmir, and then ferried out the injured to hospitals. Some 50,000 Pakistani troops joined the relief effort.

Still, residents in Muzaffarabad were desperate, mobbing trucks with food and water and grabbing whatever they could. The weak were pushed aside.
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