while patients overflowing into the hallways wailed and screamed with broken limbs and bleeding wounds. Press Trust of India reported 70 people died awaiting treatment.
             Bruised and bleeding bodies were laid in rows, covered with blankets as relatives sat by mourning.
             Officials at a command center said more than 300 were dead in Ahmadabad, more than 650 in Anjar, more than 500 in Bhuj, as well as 87 dead in Jamnagar, 147 dead in Rajkot, 55 dead in Suranagar, and 53 dead in Surat.
             The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, put the magnitude of the quake at 7.9, though Cabinet minister Pramod Mahajan insisted the quake measured 6.9.
             There were least 83 aftershocks, several measuring up to 5.6 magnitude, in the 10 hours after the quake, said the seismological department at the Bhaba Atomic Center. An apparent aftershock also hit Bangladesh, where hundreds of panicked res
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