KARACHI, Oct 14: The Edhi Foundation, with the help of locals, laid to rest 300 dead persons in a mass grave in Muzaffarabad on Thursday. Senior official of the Foundation Faisal Edhi from Muzaffarabad informed the Karachi office through satellite phone about the burial, saying another mass burial would take place in Muzaffarabad on Friday, a spokesman for the foundation said.

He said a 15-member team comprising medical technicians equipped with four rescue boats, eight generators and searchlights, after reaching Islamabad, had set out for Muzaffarabad where they would recover bodies from the Neelum River for proper burial.

The generators will be utilized in order to continue the relief and rescue operation would in the night as well, the spokesman said.

Over 189 patients have been shifted from the flattened city of Muzaffarabad to hospitals in Rawalpindi and Rawalakot. The spokesman quoting the group leader of Edhi rescue team no 3, Amanullah Partabi, engaged in the Bagh area said there were remote areas in Bagh where relief efforts had not reached yet and people were carrying the injured on shoulders.

The spokesman said on an average, 75 trucks were setting out daily to the effected areas from different Edhi offices located in Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Multan, Quetta and Karachi.