In pictures: Earthquake Hits Pakistan-India Border

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 5:13 AM ET
Indian school children sit outside school building after an earthquake hit the northern city of Jammu, October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, 'wiping out' several villages in Pakistan and causing scores of casualties. REUTERS/Amit Gupta

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 5:16 AM ET
Patients and their attendants wait outside a hospital after an earthquake hit the northern Indian city of Jammu, October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Amit Gupta

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 5:18 AM ET
Pakistani volunteers search for trapped residents at a collapsed building following an earthquake in Islamabad October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmoodas

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 5:22 AM ET
Relatives bring a patient out of a hospital after an earthquake hit the northern Indian city of Jammu, October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Amit Gupta

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AP - Sat Oct 8, 5:37 AM ET
Pakistani school teachers comfort each other as severe earthquake jolts Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct 8, 2005. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake rocked parts of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, injuring at least a dozen people and damaging dozens of homes and shops. Part of a 10-story apartment building collapsed in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, and dozens of people were feared trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 5:52 AM ET
Pakistani volunteers work at a collapsed building following an earthquake in Islamabad October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmoodas

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AP - Sat Oct 8, 5:57 AM ET
Kashmiris weep during an earthquake in Baramulla, 57 kilometers (36 miles) north of Srinagar, India, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake jolted South Asia on Saturday, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds of others in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 6:06 AM ET
Pakistani men injured when a building collapsed after an earthquake are treated in a hospital in Islamabad October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

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AP - Sat Oct 8, 6:09 AM ET
A Kashmiri Muslim girl reads the holy Quran as others prays after an earthquake in Sopore, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of Srinagar, India, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake jolted South Asia on Saturday, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds of others in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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AP - Sat Oct 8, 6:10 AM ET
Kashmiri women hug each other after an earthquake in Baramulla, about 57 kilometers (36 miles) north of Srinagar, India, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake jolted South Asia on Saturday, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds of others in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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AP - Sat Oct 8, 6:11 AM ET
Police officers covere the dead body of a victim of a severe earthquake that jolted Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake rocked parts of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, injuring at least a dozen people and damaging dozens of homes and shops. Part of a 10-story apartment building collapsed in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, and dozens of people were feared trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 6:17 AM ET
Indian labourers remove debris of a collapsed house following a powerful earthquake in Amritsar, in the northern state of Punjab, October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Munish Sharma

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 6:27 AM ET
Pakistani soldiers stand in front of a collapsed building following an earthquake in Islamabad October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, 'wiping out' several villages in Pakistan and leaving more than 1,000 people feared dead. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 6:40 AM ET
Patients and their attendants wait outside a hospital after an earthquake hit the northern Indian city of Jammu, October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Amit Gupta

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 7:06 AM ET
Indian Muslims pray for the dead and speedy recovery of earthquake victims in Ahmadabad, the main city of the western state of Gujarat, October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Amit Dave

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 7:09 AM ET
An Indian man walks past debris of a collapsed house following an earthquake in Amritsar, in the northern state of Punjab, October 8, 2005. A major earthquake shook cities and villages across the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday, including the Pakistan capital Islamabad where scores of people were feared killed or trapped when two buildings collapsed. Officials said heavy casualties were expected in the north of Pakistan, but details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile networks overwhelmed. REUTERS/Munish Sharma

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Reuters - Sat Oct 8, 7:18 AM ET
Afghan men repair part of their damaged house in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan, October 8, 2005. At least one person was killed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday when a strong earthquake rocked Afghanistan, neighbouring Pakistan as well as India. REUTERS/Stringer

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Earthquake in Uri village

Introduction

David Escott is a software developer in Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The day after the South Asian earthquake, he got in touch with the BBC News website and sent these pictures from his visit to the village of Uri close to Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.

When the earthquake struck, I was on my houseboat. A series of big waves swept the lake.

I went to Uri to assess the damage. This side of Kashmir isnt totally devastated but there is a real sense of fear and shock.

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Roadside casualty

Hafiz-u-Allah was sitting on the road outside the Uri hospital. He said that 20 people were killed in his village.

He was caught in between two houses. The walls collapsed on him, fracturing his leg and injuring his head. They were promised a helicopter by local government but it never materialised.

Friends and family carried him by stretcher on foot until a vehicle passed and gave them a lift to Uri.

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Uri relief camp

A relief camp was all set up and ready to go at Uri. It was full of officials and doctors, but no patients.

In Uri itself, there were no deaths. But many people are suffering from shock. They are being offered free phone calls to reach friends and family throughout India and across the world

Frustration sums up the atmosphere here: there was no massive destruction but people do need food, blankets and water not medicine.

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