QUAKE AFTERMATH
March 8, 2006
Aid workers feared a second wave of deaths caused by winter descending on Pakistan after the October earthquake, but the worst never materialized, reports the Associated Press. More than 80,000 people died in the quake, which also left three million people homeless and potentially subject to brutally cold weather, disease, and malnutrition. “We think the winter phase is over; the winter race has been won,” says Jamie McGoldrick, deputy humanitarian-aid coordinator for the United Nations.
