Looting in quake-hit Pak Kashmir capital

Desperate residents ransacked military trucks, which had just arrived in the city and took desperately needed relief goods including food, tents, blankets and medicines, an AFP photographer at the scene said.

Others broke into a petrol station to get fuel to burn wood for cooking and warmth, the photographer said yesterday.

"There is no food, where is the help, where should we go," shouted people who have had to fend for themselves for more than 48 hours after the giant 7.6 magnitude quake struck.

"Where is the government, no one has arrived here to give us anything, people are starving, they have lost all their family members, their belongings," Akram Shah, a local resident, told AFP.