Children die as winter snow sweeps quake valleys
December 4, 2005
As temperatures plummet in the foothills of the Himalayas, Dan McDougall reports on the misery of Pakistani Kashmir, where cold and disease are multiplying the woes of the disaster’s survivors:
“Here and there, beneath the snowline, painted white stones spell out ‘H’s, where villagers improvised helipads. The helicopters never came. As they always suspected, they will have to rely on their own wits to survive.”
