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• Aid agency puts death toll at 500-600
• Thousands homeless as villages destroyed

Imagine sleeping in your warm bed, then, being jolted upright from the sounds of what you think is rolling thunder and tremors, only to find your homes caving in and your families dying right before your eyes. For some this day was the beginning of heartbreak and loss, and screams which will never be forgotten.
More than 170 have been found dead and over 15,000 are left homeless today resulting from the 6.2 earthquake that has struck in the Southwest region of Pakistan in the predawn hours of Wednesday October 29, 2008 while people lay sleeping in their beds. The death toll is expected to rise.
Roads have once again been closed or blocked due to the massive mudslides, meaning that the deaths will increase as well.
Families have already started digging mass graves to bury their dead. Pakistani soldiers and volunteers are still looking for the survivors.
At least eight villages have been hit with homes being buried in landslides that were triggered by the earthquake.

Some have lost everything and feel that life is worthless. They wonder how to go on. The weather is getting cold, near freezing temperatures. With nowhere to go and no one to turn to, more and more will suffer before this nightmare is over.
Hospitals are dealing with the injured as more and more are pouring in.
For some, it is a remake of the earthquake that hit in 2005 in the Northwest region where thousands were left dead and injured.
Baitulmaal was one of the few relief organizations allowed into the region to assist in their loss, sending doctors, volunteers, tents, blankets, clothes, along with medical and food assistance. We want to be that assistance once again for our brothers and sisters who depend on our support.
The aid agency Care International put the death toll at 500-600. Several villages were reduced to rubble. Local television pictures showed lines of bodies in white shrouds with victims' names written on them.
The earthquake struck in the early hours of the morning about 40 miles (60km) north-east of the provincial capital Quetta. There were aftershocks throughout the day including a powerful tremor at about 5.30pm local time.
"We went to a village, Wam, where we saw mass graves being dug," said Hasan Mazumdar, Care International's country director in Pakistan.
"Bodies were still arriving. I estimate that 200 died in that village alone.
"There was a big jolt while we were standing there. The mountains shook. Boulders came crashing down. The people were really scared. They never experienced anything like this. I spoke to a man in his early 30s who had lost four daughters. He was just completely heartbroken."
The earthquake of 2005 in northern Pakistan claimed about 73,000 lives. Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, was flattened in 1935 by an earthquake that killed 30,000.
The Pakistan meteorological department put the magnitude of today's quake at 6.5. The official death toll is around 170 but reports are still coming in from remote areas. The army has been sent in, bringing tents and blankets flown, but thousands are spending tonight in the open because their homes were destroyed or they are too frightened to go back indoors. Sub-zero temperatures are expected. Khalil Gill, a worker with Oxfam who was in Quetta, said: "It was very cold this morning, we just ran out, no shoes, no jackets. There was a shock around 8am. This evening was the strongest, the whole town was shaking. Everything shook for about two minutes. We rushed outside. Women and children were crying. We are too frightened to go back into any buildings. We are all spending the night outside."
The former British hilltop resort of Ziarat and around eight surrounding villages were the worst hit. Hundreds of mud and timber houses destroyed, including some buried in landslides triggered by the quake. "There is great destruction," said Ziarat's mayor, Dilawar Kakar. "Not a single house is intact."
Ziarat is a rural part of an impoverished province. The majority of houses are made of mud, so have little resistance to earth tremors. It is estimated 30,000 people have been affected by the earthquake, with around 15,000 made homeless. Army helicopters flew in relief supplies but there was limited distribution of aid today, leaving shortages of food, water, blankets and tents.
Baluchistan is Pakistan's largest province geographically but is thinly populated. Pakistani officials said they could manage the situation and did not need international assistance so far.

Please hear their cries for help. Be the one to put forth your hand to help them in their hardship and their loss. Please doante now and help your brothers and sisters in this difficult time.

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