ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: A group of 14 survivors of the October 8 earthquake returned from the United Arab Emirates on Monday after getting treatment in several civil and military hospitals for more than two months.

They were among some of the very serious patients, including eight women, suffering from spinal cord and bone injuries. A C-130 ambulance of the UAE armed forces with the 14 survivors onboard landed at Chaklala air base.

According to a statement issued here by the UAE embassy, the injured were received by the military attache and members of the embassy. A team of the Pakistan’s Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFIRM) had made arrangements to shift the patients to the hospital.

The patients arrived in either stretchers or sitting in the seats of the plane and could now move in wheelchairs

Later the UAE ambassador Ali Mohammad Shamsi said in a statement that the UAE armed forces would continue their cooperation with the Pakistan army.