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Espen Rasmussen

Verdens Gang

Balakot, Pakistan, January 26, 2006. After the quake. In the ruins of the shops in Balakot, the buisness are starting to recover. Medicines are sold on the street. The salesman Sherali Armani uses humor to speed up his buisness. The earthquake in Kashmir, Pakistan, on the 8th of October 2005, killed more than 80.000 people. The city of Balakot was one of the worst hit towns, as it was close to where the 7.6-magnitude quake was centered. Three months after the earthquake, around three million people are still homeless, living in cold tents and collapsed ruins high up in the wintercold mountains. The reliefwork is going on with trucks and helicopters, but the aid are often halted because of the hard winter.

Espen Rasmussen, "No Title Provided," in POYi Archive, Item #45741, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/45741 (accessed June 8, 2025).