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 MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Second-grader Tahir Noor Zaman stood in the sunshine with dozens of other young survivors of Pakistan's earthquake, waiting for class to start. He and the other boys will be studying in a makeshift tent of white cloth and bamboo erected in the middle of a dusty soccer field.
It is among the first schools to open this week in the shattered city of Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, since the Oct. 8 quake devastated the region and killed nearly 80,000 people.
The magnitude-7.6 quake hit on a Saturday morning during school hours. Seven-year-old Tahir said he and a few other classmates survived because they were outside, on the grounds of his elementary school.
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