Pakistani Rescuers Search for Survivors From Deadly Quake
This article is for subscribers only.
Rescuers led by Pakistan’s military continued to search for survivors trapped under rubble from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 300 people and created a new island in the Arabian Sea.
The death toll from the Sept. 24 temblor rose to 355, with 619 people injured, according to an e-mailed statement from the National Disaster Management Authority, a government agency. Suspected militants fired two rockets at a helicopter carrying the agency’s chief and another senior army officer during an aerial survey of affected areas, Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, deputy speaker of the Balochistan Assembly, said by phone. The rockets missed the target.