QUETTA DISASTER
PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH. EXHUMATION OF CORPSES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 2 p.m.) SIMLA, July 10. As between twelve and sixteen thousands corpses, and thousands of animal carcases are buried in the ruins of Quetta, with the consequent danger to the health of eighteen thousand residents, the Government has decided to salvage before March, 1936, only a few’ non-residental areas, for which a corps of three thousand is being recruited.
Wider thoroughfares also, will he cleared with a view to periodic experimental exhumations. There have been 31,500 exacuated leaving 12,000 angloIndian troops, 3.500 workers, 5,000 refugees, and 2,500 dead recovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1935, Page 6
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106QUETTA DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1935, Page 6
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