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/ 26 October 2005

Quake survivors left out in the cold

Indian quake survivor Altaf Hussein’s patience has worn thin. Every day for the past 10 days he has queued for kerosene from government trucks, and every day he has gone back empty-handed. As winter closes in, villagers like Hussein say little or no relief has reached this devastated mountain region — which accounted for more than half of the 1 300 deaths from an October 8 earthquake in Indian Kashmir.