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HELPING THE VICTIMS
PEOPLE RUSH INJTO STREETS
(Received June It 12.45 p.m.)
LONDON, May 31. It is unconfirmedlyT reported that there are 30,000 deaths) in Quetta alone. The British garrison,, the majority of whom were uninjured!, assisted the Indian troops in extrijfcating hundreds of the injured. The majority of the Casualties occurred in the congested najtive city, where the houses toppled ona: upon another. The panic-stricken inl^Bbitants rushed out into the narrow streets where they were overwhelmed as>the structures crashed. Refuge camps have tyaen established on the racecourse and jgrounds of the Residency, where Sir Alexander Cator previously had, a miracfcUous escape in escaping with ' his household as the bungalow fell like a pack of cards. The casualties to members of the Royal Air Force do nob include officers. The shocks were felt ir^all the upper
districts of the Sind. The people, hurled from their beds, ran into the open.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 9
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