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Quake survivors bitter as relief comes slowly
Supplies dwindle while deaths rise
By Declan Walsh, Globe Correspondent | October 11, 2005
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan -- His eyes glassy with grief, Muhammad Afar peered into the debris along Bank Road and pointed at a hole covered with a swarm of flies. A rich, sickly smell wafted.
''In there," he said, his voice quavering with anguish. ''For three days my brothers have been trapped in there.
''For three days the government does nothing. And now they are rotting."
Bitterness mingled with desperation in Muzaffarabad, the city near the epicenter of the massive earthquake on Saturday that shook Pakistan, northern India, and pockets of Afghanistan.
A sluggish start to urgently needed relief operations has exacerbated the suffering of more than 100,000 residents clinging to life in the hillside capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.
Three days into the disaster, whose magnitude has increased every day, thousands of families are sleeping outside in the chilly autumn weather; food stocks are running short and the water supply has been cut off.
Help is arriving. The Pakistani army has scrambled helicopters to evacuate the wounded. Kalander Baloch, a 54-year-old man with injuries to his back and a leg, waited on a wooden bed for a ride to Rawalpindi, 60 miles to the south.
