55,000 quake survivors to be relocated

04 Jun, 2006

Some 55,000 earthquake survivors will be relocated due to the danger posed by monsoon landslides in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.
"A strategy is being evolved to relocate some 50 to 55 thousand people from areas prone to landslides before the start of monsoon season," the region's top administrator Kashif Murtaza told AFP. Murtaza said that 18 villages were likely to be affected.

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