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 BUNIYAR, India (AP) - Authorities air-dropped burial shrouds and food Monday to remote villages hit by the weekend's devastating earthquake and the death toll climbed past 1,000 in Indian Kashmir.
Three days after the magnitude-7.6 temblor struck the Himalayan region, thousands of people in outlying communities waited for help and complained they had run out of food and water. Some organized their own expeditions for supplies.
Authorities delivered tents, rice, flour and sugar, part of which was air dropped by military aircraft over remote villages. In addition, shrouds — pieces of unstitched cloth required by Islam for burial — also had been dropped.
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