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India Quake - Destruction in Kashmir area where quake kills several hundred
10/09/2005
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NAME: IND QUAKE 091005N TAPE: EF05/0901 IN_TIME: 10:43:22:05 DURATION: 00:03:53:09 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Uri/ Srinagar, 9 Oct 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST Jabla Village, Uri 1. Various of army soldiers looking for survivors in the rubble 2. Wide of kitchen of a damaged house 3. Soldiers removing rubble 4. Various of grieving mother crying 5. Head of family sitting amidst ruins of his house 6. Another family sitting in the open 7. Women 8. Close up of small child 9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sharifuddin, resident of Jabla Village: "Two of my children were trapped in the rubble. The house collapsed and one child died there and then I pulled out the other somehow." 10. Injured child being carried on shoulder by a relative 11. Close up of a boy's blood-stained face 12. Injured child being loaded onto ambulance 13. Ambulance moving away 14. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) G M Bhat, Director Fire Services: "As far as casualties are concerned, it is only an estimate because the toll keeps on changing. Uri is the worst hit with Tangdar being a close second." 15. Family cooking in open 16. Close up of pot with rice cooking in it 17. Woman stirring rice 18. Close up of old woman's face 19. Wide of women cooking in front of their damaged house 20. Various of men praying before freshly dug graves 21. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohammed Latif Mir, Headman of Jabla Village: "When the earthquake struck, it was like bombs exploding. Houses were destroyed. We were very anxious, we did not know what happened to others. After three hours, we discovered 16 bodies. We could not give them a decent burial and buried them in the graveyard in a brief ceremony." 22. Relief workers carrying food supplies uphill 23. Close up of bread and fruits in baskets Srinagar 24. Various of relief material at the airport waiting to be airlifted 25. Aid parcels 26. Relief supplies being loaded into waiting chopper 27. Chopper taking off 28. United Progressive Alliance leader Sonia Gandhi and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee arriving at the military hospital 29. Various of Sonia Gandhi entering ward 30. Injured boy on bed 31. Sonia Gandhi talking to a patient 32. SOUNDBITE (English) Sonia Gandhi, Leader of United Progressive Alliance: "The immediate help....... we were told that at least about 40,000 blankets would be needed. Rations, they have no problems because they had stocked up already for the winter, but blankets and tents are necessary." 33. Various of injured in hospital 34. Leg of an injured man in traction STORYLINE The death toll from Saturday's 7.6 magnitude earthquake rose to 600 in India after rescue workers and soldiers pulled out 90 more bodies in the frontier Tangdar region, 105 kilometres (65 miles) north of Srinagar. Srinagar is the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state. Collapsed homes and shops lined the streets of towns and villages nestled in Tangdar's deep valleys as well as the border town of Uri, Punch and Srinagar. Indian army rescue teams are continuing their search for survivors. In Jabla, a village about 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of Srinagar, a distraught woman watched the rescue team as they looked for her child buried under the rubble. Help has still not reached many villages in the remote areas. Mud, debris and knee-high mud from landslides blocked roads, cutting off many remote villages. Most people in the village spent the night in the open, offering prayers before freshly dig graves of their loved ones. Among the dead were 54 soldiers from the army and paramilitary forces who perished in landslides along the Line of Control that separates the Indian and Pakistani portions of Kashmir, according to an army spokesman. Some 900 people were injured and some 5,700 houses damaged, said Jammu-Kashmir state's Chief Secretary Vijay Bakaya. Volunteers were travelling by road and on foot to remote areas in the mountains to provide emergency medical care. Sonia Gandhi, the head of India's ruling alliance, visited Uri on Sunday and met the injured in hospitals in Srinagar. Gandhi told reporters that the immediate aim was to provide food and shelter, specially tents and blankets. The Indian army has flown in planeloads of medicines, food and drinking water to the worst-hit Baramulla district, officials said. More than 1,000 tents were being distributed in remote villages flattened by the quake. However, many people complained that they had received no help from government agencies and the military. The Indian army is also airlifting the injured to Srinagar. KEYWORD - INDIA EARTHQUAKE OCT 2005
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