Victims forced to wait outside hospital

LYING on makeshift beds on a hospital lawn in this north-western Pakistani hill town, some screaming in pain, hundreds of men, women and children wait for help.

But they have to stay there for now, because doctors say the monster earthquake that rumbled through the region early on Saturday could have made the building dangerous.

“We feel it is unsafe to keep patients inside,” said Amir Shah, a senior doctor at the Ayub hospital in Abbotabad.