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How you can donate Visit: www.redcross.org.uk/asianearthquake Call: 08450 535 353 Write to: British Red Cross Asian Earthquake Appeal, Freepost, LON18968, Sheffield S98 1ZA: There was nothing else to hand, so villagers began to dig with bare hands into collapsed schools and homes as they searched for survivors of the huge earthquake that is believed to have killed many thousands in South Asia.
Meanwhile, the slow pace of rescue and aid efforts in reaching their destroyed homes, led angry villagers to block roads in Indian- controlled Kashmir,See the full content of this document
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'The Ground Shook and Took Everything Down'
The death toll from Saturday's 7.6 magnitude earthquake rose to 465 in India after rescue workers and soldiers pulled out 90 more bodies in the frontier Tangdar region, 65 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state.
But the brunt of the quake wa...See the full content of this document
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