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After an aerial reconnaissance of the area devastated by last week’s earthquake, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes says that one hundred thousand people may be dead and two hundred thousand or more injured.

In scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, thousands of injured are jamming areas around overwhelmed hospitals as the true immensity of this disaster becomes more clear. From the heart-rending report that three hundred and fifty schoolchildren were killed while on parade–an entire school–to the shocked horror of government officials who are realizing that whole villages and towns are dead, the stories of the quake suggest a catastrophe of world-historic proportions.
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