2 Oct 2013

Pakistan quake toll rising

7:41 am on 2 October 2013

The death toll from a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in southwest Pakistan last Tuesday has risen to 376.

More than 100,000 people are homeless since the quake on 24 September.

Another magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the area on Saturday, killing at least 22 people.

"At least 330 people died in Awaran district and 46 in Kech, while 824 people were wounded," the national disaster management agency said on Tuesday in a statement, referring to the toll in two areas badly affected by the first earthquake.

The figures did not include the second tremor.

Relief work in the remote area has included air drops. Frontier Corps personnel have been heavily involved in the relief effort, along with non-government organisations.

The quake on 24 September was the deadliest in Pakistan since a tremor in Kashmir in 2005 which killed 73,000 people.