Trucks of aid arrived in the ruined capital of Pakistan-ruled Kashmir on Tuesday and victims scuffled for badly needed food and blankets three days after a devastating earthquake flattened whole communities, killing tens of thousands and leaving millions homeless. The government's official death toll remained at slightly over 20,000 people, but a senior army official who is close to the rescue operations, said that "according to our assessment, the death toll is between 35,000 to 40,000 people." With winter just six weeks away, the United Nations said 2.5 million people in the worst-hit areas near the mountainous Pakistan-India border need shelter, according to a report of The Associated Press.
