When the earthquake struck, Pakistani villager Fazal Elahi thought it was the end of the world. For his family, it was, Reuters reports. Grieving quietly next to the body of his 14-year-old daughter, Elahi recounted how his wife and brother had died when their house collapsed and how he had taken his fatally injured daughter to Mansehra Hospital in North West Frontier Province. "When the earthquake came it was like Judgement Day," Elahi said, recalling the horror of houses collaping all around him. To get to the hospital some 46 km (30 miles) away, Elahi passed through Balakot, a town of around 20,000 people, where the scale of the devastation became even more apparent. "Houses in Balakot city were flattened." The white-bearded old man finally reached the hospital, but his daughter died in his arms as they went through the gates. A villager from Hillkot, some 60 km from Mansehra, had a similar story -- only his daughter was alive. --more 2255 Local Time 1955 GMT
