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  • Oct 25th, 2005
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The Indian army is readying medical facilities, building bridges, clearing landmines and rushing supplies to its militarised frontier in expectation of a flood of stricken earthquake survivors from Pakistan, officials said on Monday.

"We have set up a 100-bed tent hospital which includes a 10-bed emergency unit for those who are critically injured," Indian army brigadier A.K. Bakshi said in Chakan Dabagh, 249 kilometres west of occupied Jammu.

Chakan Dabagh is one of three points along the Line of Control (LoC) identified by New Delhi at the weekend as points where it plans to set up relief camps for earthquake victims.

India says survivors from the Pakistani zone can cross the LoC to relief camps during daylight hours, be treated and gather supplies, and then cross back again.

It said camps will be opened as soon as Pakistan gives the go-ahead, and they would be ready to operate by Tuesday.

Islamabad, for its part, has proposed five locations on the LoC where Kashmiris from both sides can cross over in either direction to assist relatives hit by the October 8 earthquake.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2005


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