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Death toll rises to 927 in Jammu and Kashmir
Staff Reporter
| Number of injured has crossed 3,000; 4,597 houses destroyed |
At Teetwal, 210 km north of Srinagar, a girl is being helped to hospital.
SRINAGAR: The death toll in Saturday's earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir has risen to 927, including 619 in Baramulla and 301 in Kupwara, the worst-affected frontier districts.
The number of the injured has crossed 3,000 and 4,597 houses have been destroyed, as per official figures available till late Monday evening.
The Army and the Air Force continued operations for the third consecutive day to reach the remote places, where civic administration remains hit.
Fight for survival: At Uri, an Army helicopter getting ready to ferry the injured to Srinagar.
Half-a-dozen villages in Baramulla district including Chapper and Chruanda are still not accessible, as there have been landslips at various places. The main challenge faced by the search parties is to bring people to Uri and Tangdhar towns, where relief operations are being carried out.
In villages such as Digia and Kamalkote, bodies are yet to be retrieved from the debris. Many of the injured continue to reach Uri and Tangdhar from the remote villages.
A boy is fed by a soldier in an Army Hospital.
Protests were held at various places on Rampur-Baramulla National Highway 1 A; people complained of inadequate relief and scarcity of tents even in Uri town.
Chief Secretary Vijay Bakaya said: "We have already supplied 1,900 tents, but we need 15,000 more to provide shelter to the affected families."
Twentyone teams of doctors had been working round-the-clock in the Uri and Tangdhar sectors since Sunday and 15 ambulances deployed in the area, he said. This was in addition to the medical assistance being provided by the armed forces.
There is acute water shortage, as there are only six water tankers in the area.
Mild aftershocks were experienced across the State on Sunday night but officials said there was no need to panic as they were less intense and less frequent.
A sad spectacle of the body of a boy being dug out of a house at the border village of Udoosa.
BJP president L.K. Advani toured the affected areas on Monday.
The J&K Trade Union Centre has announced formation of the Kashmir Relief Committee. The committee said all branches of the trade union were converted into local relief panels and directed to cooperate in official and non-official relief efforts.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said in a statement that his government would provide Rs. 44.30 lakhs as relief.
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