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| Medical members carry an injured
child into the emergency center of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences
in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on Oct. 14, 2005. (Xinhua
Photo) | ISLAMABAD, Oct. 17
(Xinhuanet) -- The number of people died in Pakistan's earthquake has risen to
39,422 and that of injured was 65,038, national disaster response chief Major
General Farooq Javed said Sunday.
"The number of confirmed dead has risen to 39,422,
and the number of injured is 65,038," Javed told journalists in a press
conference here.
The death toll was reported to reach 38,000 and the
number of injured people was 62,000 when Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
announced Saturday, but the number of casualties confirmed one day later raised
by almost 1,500.
The devastating 7.6 Richter scale earthquake shook
northern Pakistan on Oct. 8 has also left 3.3 million people homeless.
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while waiting outside a makeshift medical center in the
earthquake-devastated Muzaffarabad, capital city of Pakistan administered
Kashmir.[AFP] | The Pakistani government and the
international community have carried out relief works in the quake-stricken
areas. But due to the damaged roads and communication difficulties, it's hard
for relief teams and goods to reach some outlying places which partly led to the
rising of the death toll.
A Pakistani military relief helicopter crashed in
Bagh in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir Saturday in a bad weather and six armymen
were killed in the crash.
The crash took place when the helicopter was
returning home after dropping relief goods to the quake-stricken areas in
northern Pakistan.
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf Sunday
renewed appeal for the United Nations and international organizations to donate
more as Pakistan is facing a national calamity and need help.
He thanked the international community and the UN
agencies which have provided immediate assistance to his country.
Musharraf said the massive earthquake has caused
immense loss of lives and property in the remote and inaccessible hilly areas of
the North West Frontier Province and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
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