2.5 million homeless as death toll reaches 40,000

UP to 40,000 people are now feared dead and 2.5 million are homeless after Pakistan’s worst earthquake razed entire villages and buried roads in rubble.

Shopkeepers clashed with looters yesterday and hungry families huddled under tents while waiting for relief supplies in freezing cold.

British rescuers yesterday unearthed a man trapped in rubble for 54 hours, while residents, using their bare hands, freed two girls buried in a collapsed school for about 48 hours.