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 ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) - There's the student whose teacher dug him out of the rubble of his classroom. The boy who slept late while hundreds of his classmates died. Those are the lucky ones, the ones who can tell their story.
For the rest, doctors, parents and aid workers offer up the tragic toll of the massive earthquake that devastated northern Pakistan: When the roofs and the walls came down, more often than not they fell on the children.
At the hospital here, bed after bed holds small, crumpled bodies of toddlers and adolescents, some tended to with love and worry by a mother or father, some all alone. There are injured men, women, elderly, too. But doctors here said the young make up half their patients.
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