Remote communities 'may need greatest aid'

Destruction in the two Pakistan valleys leading out of Muzaffarabad may be worse than in the town itself, the international Red Cross said today after its first helicopter flight over the area devastated by Saturday’s earthquake.

The overflight “confirmed what has been kind of speculation. These areas are as much destroyed as Muzaffarabad or more,” said Vincent Lusser, spokesman at the International Committee of the Red Cross.