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First Place
Pieter ten Hoopen Moment Agency
"Earthquake Pakistan"
On the 8 of October 2005, a destructive earthquake
hit the northern parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. In Pakistan, the
provinces of Kashmir and the Northwest Frontier suffers hardest. As far
73,000 people have died, 125,000 got injured and more than 3 million have
lost their houses. The city of Balakot which is situated in the Kaghan
valley; NWF province is one of the places which turned into ruins totally.
Only in Balakot and surroundings tens of thousands people have died. More
than 2 months after the earthquake people are still digging for their
relatives and friends. The old mosque in the center of Balakot became a
ruin. The local people in Balakot are praying on the square in font of the
old mosque.
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