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Thousands of villagers in Pakistan have spent a second night outdoors in sub-zero temperatures after a devastating earthquake destroyed their homes on Wednesday.
Rescue efforts have been hampered by a series of aftershocks, following the 6.4 magnitude quake in the Ziarat valley in the province of Baluchistan, which has killed at least 215 people and left more than 15,000 homeless.
More bodies are expected to be pulled from the rubble and many survivors have complained of receiving little help.
"The earthquake destroyed our houses, but now the government's slow response is killing us," said Moosa Kaleem, a local resident in the town of Ziarat.
"We cannot spend another night in this chilly weather, especially the kids."
According to an AFP correspondent in Wam, one of the worst-hit villages, emergency tents had not arrived by Thursday morning, and villagers had been forced to sleep in the ruined shells of their homes overnight.
They had spent the previous day in a desperate search for loved ones or burying the dead in mass graves.
Aftershocks predicted
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said it had recorded more than 250 aftershocks.
They also said that more are likely to be felt into next week but of decreasing magnitude.
"It is a complete emergency here. Nobody has anything to eat and drink," said Dilawar Kakar, the mayor of Ziarat.
"We need a lot of resources to reconstruct, and stabilize these trauma stricken people."
The UN World Food Program pledged to supply emergency rations to those displaced by the disaster for two months, while the International Committee of the Red Cross was distributing some 2,500 tents.
In the hillside town of Kawas, soldiers handed out blankets, tents and sleeping bags to a crowd of 500 people and helped load two dozen trucks with supplies destined for other areas.
In the capital Islamabad, Farooq Ahmad Khan, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, said Pakistan had not issued an appeal for foreign assistance, but any help would be accepted.
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Pakistani earthquake survivors sit on the rubble of the collapsed houses in Wam.
Al-Jazeera
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