Scenes from Pakistan's quake-hit Muzaffarabad

Scenes from Pakistan's quake-hit Muzaffarabad

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - A person hit by the devastating Oct. 8 earthquake sits in a makeshift tent in the Pakistani Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad on Oct. 15.

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