Toll in devastating Pakistan quake touches 350

Islamabad: Soldiers and rescue teams today stepped up their desperate search for survivors in the rubble of thousands of homes flattened by a powerful earthquake that struck Pakistan's Balochistan province as the death toll rose to nearly 350.





Official sources in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, told PTI that about 350 people were killed by the 7.7-magnitude quake, with a majority of deaths reported from the worst-hit Awaran district.

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