8 October 2008 – United Nations humanitarian agencies are continuing their relief efforts in the mountains of southern Kyrgyzstan, where an earthquake on Sunday night killed more than 70 people and displaced hundreds of families, as they work to bring aid before the expected arrival of the first snowfalls of the season. At least 74 people were killed and 142 others were injured as a result of the quake, while more than 200 families have been displaced from their homes, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported Kyrgyz authorities and UN officials say the population is so sparse in the affected area, a remote, mountainous region close to the border with China, that they do not expect the casualty or displacement tolls to rise dramatically. But air temperatures are now reaching freezing level...
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