Thukral A man makes his way through the rubble of a collapsed block of residential buildings even as mild tremors are still being felt in the town of Morbi Monday. Hundreds of people fled their homes on Monday screaming in fear after mild tremors hit India's western town Morbi, breaking an eerie silence hanging over a once-bustling community hit by Friday's earthquake. About 300 people have died in Morbi since a major earthquake pulverized the western Indian state Gujarat last Friday. An estimated 20,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured across Gujarat as a result of the quake. Once dotted with ceramic and tile factories and textile mills, much of the town of 250,000 people has been reduced to rubble or ruin.
Nothing is left.
I have lost everything. My wife is in hospital. Shankar survived because he was reading a newspaper outside his house when the quake struck. But his wife, who was bathing inside, was trapped when their three-storeyed building caved in. She was pulled out 10 hours later, alive but with multiple fractures.