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Drought claims 15 lives in Baluchistan

By Amit Baruah

ISLAMABAD, MAY 5. Drought conditions in Baluchistan have claimed 15 lives so far, Mr. Syed Abbas Shah, relief commissioner of the Pakistani province, was quoted as saying in Quetta on Thursday.

Reports from Quetta said that ``hundreds of thousands'' of cattle had also perished on account of drought in the country's largest province.

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