Military airdrops food and burial shrouds

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.

Three days after the magnitude-7.6 quake struck the Himalayan region, little help had reached outlying communities where villagers said food and water supplies were gone and some organised their own expeditions for supplies.

Authorities had delivered rice, flour and sugar, part of which was dropped by military aircraft over remote villages. Shrouds pieces of unstitched cloth required by Islam for burial were also airdropped.