BOP 2006 > Still Photography Winners > Natural Disaster Single 2005
- 1st
- PAK: Earthquake Survivors in Balakot Struggle to Survive
BALAKOT, PAKISTAN-OCTOBER 18: A mother touches the head of her injured son now living in a tent city in the devastated town of Balakot, 90% destroyed in Pakistan controlled Kashmir October 17,2005. A devastating earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hit northern Pakistan and neighboring India leaving up to 3 million people homeless, killing almost 80,000. Rescue efforts were complicated by the remote mountainous landscape and the vast areas effected leaving the victims in desperate situations. In some areas, injured were trapped for days with little food and no shelter as roads were blocked by landslides. Aid agencies could barely grasp the enormity of this natural disaster, the worst in Pakistan's history.
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