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Award Of Excellence
Espen Rasmussen Verdens Gang
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Balakot, Pakistan, January 25, 2006. After the quake.
The clean-up has been going on for three months in Balakot. Workers from all
over the country are participating. The lack of modern equipement means that
most of the work is done manually. The earthquake in Kashmir, Pakistan, on
the 8th of October 2005, killed more than 80.000 people. The city of Balakot
was one of the worst hit towns, as it was close to where the 7.6-magnitude
quake was centered. Three months after the earthquake, around three million
people are still homeless, living in cold tents and collapsed ruins high up
in the wintercold mountains. The reliefwork is going on with trucks and
helicopters, but the aid are often halted because of the hard winter.
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