HARIPUR, Nov 20: About 4,000 quake victims, who have moved to Haripur, are experiencing a shortage of food as the government and international aid agencies are supplying relief goods only in the disaster-hit areas, it is learnt during a visit to different localities where these survivors are settled in rented houses.

About 300 people, including children and women, most of them injured, were initially brought to a tent village set up in the Elementary College, but several families found it impossible to stay in tents and moved to rented houses or the places arranged by their acquaintances in T&T Colony, Sera-i-Saleh, Kotnajibullah, Kangra Colony, Khalabat Township, Noor Colony, etc.

As the cold started turning unbearable in tents, more and more families shifted to rented houses, increasing their population there to well over 5,000.

The district relief committee has been supplying food, warm cloths and kitchen utensils to these families.

Talking about the immediate needs of these people, the spokesperson for the Human Development Organization said that affected families settled in Haripur needed to be issued 60,000kg of wheat flour, 4,000kg of cooking oil, 9,600kg of pulses, 5,600kg of sugar, 400kg of tea, 24,000kg of dry milk and medicines to cater for them for one month.

At present, he said, the survivors had only one week of supplies.