QUETTA, Dec 10,2013 (Syed Zubair / UPI Next) — Relief efforts in Pakistan following a Sept. 24 earthquake in Baluchistan province are lagging, with international aid organizations saying the government has refused their help.
The National Disaster Management Authority and army spokesmen say the earthquake killed as many as 386 people and injured 816. More than 30,000 families — an estimated 200,000 people — in Awaran district, 400 miles southwest of the provincial capital of Quetta, have been homeless since the temblor, which measured magnitude-7.7 on the Richter scale.
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