WFP relief supplies arrive in Afghan quake zone

The World Food Program (WFP) and other organisations continued to supply aid to victims of this week's powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, which killed 1,150 people and an aftershock Friday took five more lives.

Officials said that Pakistan has opened its border in the northwest to transport critically injured Afghans to hospitals in Pakistan.  The effort to help the victims has been slowed both by geography and by Afghanistan’s decimated condition.

The International Red Cross has five hospitals in the region, but damage to the roads made it difficult for those in the worse-hit areas to reach them.