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Death Toll in Pakistan Grows to Estimated 87,000

HeadlineNov 09, 2005

The death toll from last month’s South Asian earthquake is now to estimated to be over 87,000. This according to a Pakistani government official. Meanwhile the UN said it has received only $85 million of the $550 million dollars it has requested for so far. The coordinator of the UN’s relief efforts said survivors in Kashmir would “freeze to death if they don’t get assistance in weeks.”

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