But they need far more. Villagers even become so frustrated that they loot trucks carrying relief material. An estimated 300,000 people are rendered homeless. ACT member CASA has gone to interior villages, where the government provides only little and which are far away from the international help pouring in. The village of Fadsar, about 200 kilometers south of Bhuj in Jamnagar district is too far away to to reach the main supplying lines on foot.
People there have to wait for relief coming in.
The village is totally flattened, people have to live outside. With an expression of despair and shock in his eyes over what has happened he points at the mounds of debris left. Though the death toll in the village is not high, the earthquake has killed the spirit of most of the residents. In Fadsar four people died and 22 were injured. The casualties would have been much higher if January 26 was not Republican day.