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Not even one thread and at least 20,000 people have died.
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Pakistan's military spokesman has said an entire generation of young people has been wiped out in the areas worst hit by a massive earthquake.
Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan, quoted by the AFP news agency, said children had been the biggest casualties. Many were killed when schools collapsed.
At least 20,000 people are thought to have been killed in Pakistan, with some reports suggesting the toll may double.
Many areas hit by the quake are only just being reached by aid workers.
A road has been re-opened into Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir where 11,000 are thought to have died, allowing trucks to deliver food and medical supplies.
The BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan in Muzaffarabad says two international rescue teams pulled out a 12-year-old boy alive on Monday morning, two days after he was buried by rubble.
But people are becoming more and more desperate in the city, he says, with supply trucks mobbed and reports of looting at damaged shops and homes.
The rescue effort has been slowed by landslides which have wiped out roads and bridges, and a lack of helicopters to ferry in vital heavy lifting equipment.
Correspondents say anger is mounting in communities where significant outside help has yet to arrive, amid fears time is running out to find survivors.
Many of the victims were schoolchildren, who had just begun classes when school buildings collapsed on top of them.
Children made up half the population of the affected area and were particularly vulnerable, the UN children's agency Unicef has said.
The BBC's Andrew North in Balakot, where two schools collapsed, says relatives have been frantically digging with bare hands for the several hundred children trapped inside but hopes are fading.
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-BBC News
Quite a few natural diasters recently, mother nature is pissed.
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Pakistan's military spokesman has said an entire generation of young people has been wiped out in the areas worst hit by a massive earthquake.
Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan, quoted by the AFP news agency, said children had been the biggest casualties. Many were killed when schools collapsed.
At least 20,000 people are thought to have been killed in Pakistan, with some reports suggesting the toll may double.
Many areas hit by the quake are only just being reached by aid workers.
A road has been re-opened into Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir where 11,000 are thought to have died, allowing trucks to deliver food and medical supplies.
The BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan in Muzaffarabad says two international rescue teams pulled out a 12-year-old boy alive on Monday morning, two days after he was buried by rubble.
But people are becoming more and more desperate in the city, he says, with supply trucks mobbed and reports of looting at damaged shops and homes.
The rescue effort has been slowed by landslides which have wiped out roads and bridges, and a lack of helicopters to ferry in vital heavy lifting equipment.
Correspondents say anger is mounting in communities where significant outside help has yet to arrive, amid fears time is running out to find survivors.
Many of the victims were schoolchildren, who had just begun classes when school buildings collapsed on top of them.
Children made up half the population of the affected area and were particularly vulnerable, the UN children's agency Unicef has said.
The BBC's Andrew North in Balakot, where two schools collapsed, says relatives have been frantically digging with bare hands for the several hundred children trapped inside but hopes are fading.
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-BBC News
Quite a few natural diasters recently, mother nature is pissed.
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