Aftershocks Trigger Panic as Quake Survivors Await Aid - Los Angeles Times

Aftershocks Trigger Panic as Quake Survivors Await Aid - Los Angeles Times: "Aftershocks Trigger Panic as Quake Survivors Await Aid
By Carol J. Williams and Paul Watson, Times Staff Writers

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Rattled by a powerful aftershock five days after an earthquake devastated northern villages, Pakistanis fled damaged homes and hospitals in the middle of the night and flooded from multistory buildings in the capital midday today when rumors swept of another big temblor in the offing.

As panic briefly paralyzed work and commerce in Islamabad's government district and thwarted rescue of at least one woman trapped in stricken Muzaffarabad, the United Nations' top humanitarian official toured the quake zone and warned the clock was running out for getting to trapped survivors."