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Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000
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Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Oct 08, 2005 10:07pm |
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Media | TV News - CNN |
News Date | Sunday, October 9, 2005 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistan earthquake toll has reached 18,000 dead and 41,000 injured, Pakistan military spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan has told CNN.
Sultan said the information the Pakistan government had on Sunday morning was that 18,000 was the number of confirmed dead from the magnitude 7.6 quake that struck Pakistan and parts of India and Afghanistan on Saturday morning.
Sultan said it was possible the toll could be much higher and the scale of the devastation was the biggest in Pakistan's experience.
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