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Rain dampens rescue efforts in Pakistani plane crash as nation mourns

English.news.cn   2010-07-29 19:25:56 FeedbackPrintRSS
Pakistani women mourn the death of their relatives in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi July 28, 2010. A passenger plane crashed in the Margalla hills on Wednesday morning, killing all of the 152 people on board. (Xinhua Photo/M. Arshad)

Despite heavy rains, with masks wrapped over their noses, a 35- member team search and rescue team of capital city's municipal authority is still searching for the Black Box and remains of the remaining victims in a saddened atmosphere filled with smells of blood, decomposing and burned human body parts at the site of the plane crash in the foothills of Margalla hills.

"Black Box can help us in the investigation," Interior minister Rehman Malik said as a 6-member investigation committee has been formed to investigate the incident that is keeping the white and green crescent and star studded Pakistani flag at the half mast, as both Prime Minister Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari announced Thursday as a day of mourning in the Islamic nation.

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Editor: Deng Shasha
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