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Thursday, November 3, 2(X)5 The Dispatch mid Vie Rock MuikI Aih" C3 Official quake toll jumps to more than 73,000 dead to World v' "El I How to help Here Is a Web site through which you can direct a donation: wwwunicef.org Click on UNiCEF homepage near bottom of screen. Click on Earthquake In South Asia Donate Now on a red rectangle near center of page. i I A- the quake relief has so far been far less than what it was following last year's Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed 178,000 people and left an additional 50,000 missing. After the tsunami, "we had about 1,000 helicopters active from the countries concerned, and from the whole international community. We have about one-tenth of this in this emergency, and we need helicopters just as badly," Egeland told PBS.

The U.N.'s World Food Program has only enough money $10 million to rent a third of the helicopters it needs for a round-the-clock operation into the winter, said spokesman Simon Pluess. Khan said 31 tent settlements for quake victims have been established in northwest Pakistan and 27 have been set up in Kashmir. About 500,000 tents are needed to shelter the homeless; 300,000 have been distributed. "We're doing too little combined as an international community because it's too vast," Egeland said. "We have 140,000 tents now in the area.

Normally, that is more than enough for even large-scale emergencies. This is probably only one-fourth of what is needed." ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan's official earthquake death toll jumped by 16,000, and officials warned Wednesday that it is likely to rise further as relief supplies fail to reach thousands of victims stranded in remote parts of the Himalayas. The announcement, which puts the official toll at 73,000, brings the central government figures closer to the number reported by local officials, who say the Oct. 8 quake killed at least 79,000 people in Pakistan. "Just imagine how many villages and towns became a heap of rubble and how many people got buried," said Maj.

Gen. Farooq Ahmed Khan told reporters. Khan said 73,276 people have been confirmed dead in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, up from the official count of 57,597. In India's portion of Kashmir, an additional 1,350 people died. More than 69,000 people had severe injuries, with the total number of injured much higher, the general said.

Khan attributed the spike in deaths to bodies being recovered from the debris, and warned "there is likelihood of further increase" in the death toll. The government has been cautious about the official death count, while regional officials from Pakistani Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province issued their higher tolls more than a week ago. Top U.N. relief coordinator Jan Egeland told PBS "there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands, up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven't gotten to." He said a "second wave of death" could come from "people who could freeze to death, starve to death, or just be sick because of infected water." U.N. officials say money for distribution of relief supplies was running dangerously low.

Donors have pledged $131 million of the $550 million sought by the United Nations for emergency quake aid. Egeland said foreign aid for ktV ii kS Associated Press Turtle pulled from spill Volunteer remove a turtle from oil-polluted waters near Antofagasta, Chile, 1,120 miles from Santiago, Tuesday. Authorities on Tuesday prohibited a Hong Kong registered freighter from leaving Chilean waters after it hit a rock in northern Chile, causing an oil spill. Health officials said they were closely monitoring the situation after some residents in the area complained of headaches and nausea. Security heightened at U.S.

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