Pakistan Earthquake Kills 150; 15,000 Homeless

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From Crosswalk, religous news

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit rural parts of southwestern Pakistan
before dawn Wednesday, the Christian Post reports. First reports
indicated that at least 150 were killed ant 15,000 left homeless, and
death toll is expect to grow in Baluchistan, a remote area adjacent
Afghanistan. In Ziarat, the hardest-hit region, hundreds of houses
were destroyed, some bured under a landslide. "There is great
destruction. Not a single house is intact," Mayor Dilawar Kakar told
Express News television. "I would like to appeal to the whole world
for help. We need food, we need medicine. People need warm clothes,
blankets because it is cold here," Kakar said. Thousands of tents,
blankets and food packages have been given out, and neighboring
hospitals are overflowing, officials said. Officials are also working
to clear blocked roads to allow greater humanitarian efforts inside
the rural areas.