(9 Oct 2005)
1. Mechanical diggers moving rubble
2. Troops watching
3. Various, diggers
4. Men shifting rubble with shovels
5. Digger moving rubble
6. Man moving rubble
7. Various, people watching
8. Various, troops and rescue workers standing on pile of rubble
STORYLINE:
The death toll in Pakistan from a huge earthquake that struck Pakistan, India and Afghanistan rose above 18-thousand on Sunday, a Pakistani army spokesman said, as rescuers struggled to dig victims from destroyed apartment buildings, schools and mud-brick homes.
Major-General Shaukat Sultan told Pakistan's Geo television network early Sunday that more than 18-thousand had been killed, 17-thousand of them in Pakistani Kashmir, where Saturday's 7.6-magnitude quake was centered.
Some 41-thousand people were injured, he said.
The only serious damage reported in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, was the collapse of a 10-story apartment building, where at least 10 people were killed and 126 were injured.
Hospital doctors said the dead included an Egyptian diplomat, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo said two Japanese were killed.
An eight-member United Nations team of top disaster coordination officials was due to arrive in Islamabad on Sunday to plan the global body's response.
KEYWORD - PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE OCT 2005
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