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Rain, mines, aftershocks slow Afghan quake aid
Heavy rain across earthquake-shattered northern Afghanistan has further disrupted aid efforts already slowed by the threat of land mines and aftershocks.
The freezing rain, forecast to last several days, turned dirt roads into quagmires and threatened to prevent landings by U-S military and other helicopters that have been crucial to getting food, water, medicine and tents to thousands of homeless.
The confirmed death toll four days after a killer series of earthquakes began on Monday night, mainly centred around the town of Nahrin, was about 800 with some 500 people seriously injured.
An estimated 20-thousand people are camped in the open on freezing hillsides outside Nahrin.
International aid agencies say they have managed to get tents, water, blankets, food and medicines to a central distribution point in Nahrin, but face a greater challenge to get them to the scattered population of 80-thousand in the surrounding district.
29/03/2002 21:41:05 | ABC Radio Australia News
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