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October 09, 2015

Ten years of searching for Pakistan's earthquake missing
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 7, 2015
The morning the Pakistan earthquake struck ten years ago, Nazish Naz had been reluctant to go to school, telling her elder sister the day felt cursed. Less than an hour after the 16-year-old left home, disaster struck. The 7.6 magnitude quake near the city of Muzaffarabad in the Pakistani administered part of Kashmir killed more than 73,000 people, wounded 128,000 and left around 3.5 million homeless - but a decade on the region has yet to recover. Naz's family remains unable to accept her dea ... read more

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