Rescue teams are expected from Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Italy, and Turkey. They have brought with them sniffer dogs and specialist equipment to locate survivors. Funeral pyres Funeral pyres continue to burn among the ruins all over Gujarat. Our correspondent says the main hospital in Ahmedabad is less chaotic than it was. Some survivors spent their third night outside Most families have already come to claim their dead, others are spending a long night's vigil by the beds of the living.
Many casualties have broken limbs, others are paralysed.
Some have not spoken since they were dragged from the rubble in a state of shock. Officials appealed for calm, as some survivors lost patience during long waits for water and fuel. Bhuj is reported to be a scene of total destruction. Nearby Anjar, home to 30,000 people, was also reduced to rubble. An estimated 200 aftershocks had added to the unease among survivors.