'Tents and blankets badly needed in Muzaffarabad'

Scout leader Colonel Shah Ali has appealed to the citizens to donate blankets and tents, the most needed items in the quake-hit areas.
According to a press release of Sindh Boy Scouts Association, Colonel Shah Ali talking on telephone from Muzaffarabad on Sunday said that those social organisations having adequate experience of relief work and volunteers who could walk in mountainous areas should join hands in the rescue work on emergency basis.
He said that scouts had set up base camps in various areas and were providing rescue and relief work in the areas. He said that there were chances of life under the rubble of a school near Ghari Dupatta.
He said that there was a visible improvement in relief work, which would be more improved in couple of days. He said that injured from hilly areas had been shifted to the base camp of Muzaffarabad. He said that 70 percent population lived here in remote hilly village areas, where a large number of injured is still awaiting relief work.
He said that relief work presently was in radius of five to 10 miles of Muzaffarabad, which should be further widened.
He said that more than 150 boy scouts belonging to various districts of Sindh were busy in relief and rescue work in the quake-hit area, while some 15000 boy scouts in Sindh were busy in collecting relief goods and sending them to the affected areas.