Indian army seeks quake survivors

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SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — Army medics and dog rescue teams struggled to locate and treat survivors in the remotest villages of mountainous Indian Kashmir after the devastating South Asian earthquake.

"Mobile medical teams have been dispatched to remote localities to treat the injured," Indian army spokesman Colonel Hemant Juneja told AFP.

At least 880 people died in Indian-controlled Kashmir and thousands were injured in Saturday's quake, which flattened border villages, a federal home ministry official told AFP.

An official at the ministry's disaster management control room said that 794 civilians and 86 soldiers had died from the earthquake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.

"There are over 12,000 people living in scores of villages who have...