A HALT in heavy rains yesterday allowed helicopter relief flights to resume across Pakistan’s quake zone, but fresh landslides hampered efforts to move supplies by road.

Air force helicopters today resumed drops of urgently-needed relief supplies to the survivors of the weekend earthquake in inaccessible areas of Indian Kashmir, after nearly 12 hours of disruption caused by torrential rains and snow.

AUTHORITIES yesterday airdropped burial shrouds and food to remote villages hit by the weekend’s devastating earthquake, as the death toll climbed to 804 in Indian Kashmir.

THE death toll in India passed 600 last night after rescue workers and soldiers pulled out 90 more bodies in the frontier Tangdar region, 65 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state.

Angry villagers briefly blocked roads today in earthquake-ravaged regions of Indian-controlled Kashmir, protesting at the slow pace of rescue and aid efforts in reaching their destroyed homes.

Today’s powerful earthquake in southern Asia killed at least 250 people across Indian Kashmir, a senior state official said in the Himalayan region.

Two suspected Islamic militants stormed an army camp in Kashmir killing 12 soldiers before they were slain, as India’s president wrapped up a three-day visit to the strife-torn Himalayan region.

Artillery guns boomed across the India-Pakistan frontier overnight after a two-week lull, killing at least one civilian and wounding another, an Indian army spokesman said today.