// Shamsul Basunia //
Desperate survivors bracing for a fourth
freezing night
in the rubble of their earthquake-flattened
homes
appealed for aid on Thursday as the Pakistan
government said thousands more houses
had been damaged than
previously
thought.
and an unstable security situation have
impeded relief efforts since Monday’s
7.5 magnitude quake killed more than
390 people in Pakistan and
Afghanistan and leveled
thousands of
homes.
With winter fast approaching in
Pakistan’s
worst
hit province of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, survivors said
they and their children
were running out
of
time.
“After November 15 there will be three
to four
feet of snow here and we have nothing to
protect us,” said Mir Wali, whose
village Charun Ovir is 3,000
meters up in mountainous
terrain in the northwestern
district of Chitral.
Dust is still rising from the mountain
after the earthquake caused cracks
in it, leaving villagers fearing
a
landslide or
collapse.
For days authorities had been struggling
to reach the most isolated communities
in the mountainous region, but the
NDMA said Thursday it
believes it has reached
‘most of the
affected area’.
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