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Villagers desperate to find survivors dug with bare hands Sunday through the debris of a collapsed school where children had been heard crying beneath the rubble after a massive earthquake killed more than 30,000 people in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir alone.
"I have been informed by my department that more than 30,000 people have died in Kashmir," Tariq Mahmmod, communications minister for the Himalayan region, told The Associated Press.
Saturday's magnitude-7.6 quake also struck India and Afghanistan, which reported hundreds dead.
Pakistan's army called the earthquake the country's worst-ever disaster and appealed for urgent help. Rival India, the United States, the United Nations, Britain, Russia, China, Turkey, Japan and Germany all offered assistance.
It is only disasters inside the US where the original death toll estimates are higher than
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Mad Mikey said:
Yeah, you've got a point Dave - I hadn't even thought about the typical 'over-inflation' of death
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Dave said:
Alright, I know what I'm about to say may not make me very popular, BUT...
On 9/11 we wer
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Alright, I know what I'm about to say may not make me very popular, BUT...
On 9/11 we were told that an estimated 10,000 people died. It only turned out to be 3,000. During Hurricane Katrina, we were given the same number and less than a thousand people died. This is why I don't trust the news.
I'm not saying that this isn't a tragedy, but I am saying that we need to be skeptical of the estimates and the reporting. Remember all the Katrina coverage was a little over a month ago. Have we not learned anything?
|| Posted by Dave, October 10, 2005 06:06 AM ||Yeah, you've got a point Dave - I hadn't even thought about the typical 'over-inflation' of deaths.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 10, 2005 07:00 AM ||It is only disasters inside the US where the original death toll estimates are higher than the final count. Outside the US, the counts start fairly high and just keep going up.
The Boxing Day tsunami estimates started at 10,000 and just kept getting higher. Final toll was >200,000 with several thousand listed as missing.
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, October 11, 2005 03:57 AM ||