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Desperation grows as Afghan-Pakistan quake victims wait for aid

RUINED. Pakistani earthquake survivors gather around the destroyed houses in Usiak, a village some 50 km from Chitral on October 28, 2015. Farooq Naeem/AFP

CHITRAL, Pakistan (Oct. 29, 2015) — Earthquake survivors in Pakistan and Afghanistan emerged from a third night without shelter Thursday, October 29, as village leaders warned they had nothing to protect children from the freezing conditions while rescuers struggle to reach isolated communities.

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3rd night in the cold for Afghan-Pakistan quake survivors

THIRD NIGHT. A Pakistani holding a young child injured in the October 26 7.5 magnitude earthquake, sits in her damaged home, in Peshawar, Pakistan, October 28, 2015. Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA

SHANGLA, Pakistan (Oct. 28, 2015) — Entire communities of earthquake survivors in Afghanistan and Pakistan were bracing for a third night without shelter in plummeting temperatures Wednesday, October 28 as rescuers struggled to reach remote mountainous regions, with the death toll climbing to 370.

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Rescuers struggle to reach Afghan-Pakistan quake survivors

QUAKE VICTIM. A boy who was injured in 7.7 magnitude earthquake, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, October 27, 2015. Arhsad Arbab/EPA

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Oct. 28, 2015) — Rescuers raced against time Wednesday, October 28, to reach cold and hungry survivors of an earthquake that left entire communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan marooned in remote mountain regions, as the death toll climbed to 370.

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