Hundreds killed in Kashmir quake

[EdwardTking]

Hundreds killed in Kashmir quake!!!

Residents search the wreckage of an Islamabad tower block

Pakistan says more than 1,000 people may have died in a powerful quake that also hit north India and Afghanistan. The quake in Kashmir had a magnitude of at least 7.6. The epicentre was 80km (50 miles) north-east of Islamabad.

Pakistan's interior ministry said several villages had been wiped out. A total of 172 are so far confirmed dead in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Rescuers are trying to reach dozens of residents feared trapped in collapsed buildings in Islamabad.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is really horrible. I'd really hate to be
trapped in a building by an earthquake!

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

If I had been born a year earlier, I would have had to live through an earthquake.

 

[stormbind]

I hate the effect collapsing towers has on people, and remember the earthquake in Turkey where news accidentally showed someone being beheaded by heavy construction equipment (used to move rubble)

 

[silver 2039]

Hmmm.....welll then... pouplation control.