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Noor Jehan, 68, an elderly Kashmiri village woman left homeless by the 08 October 2005 earthquake, carries her belongings as her grandson, Imram (R) walks besides her in a refugee camp in Drangyari, some 140 kms north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, Sunday 07 May 2006. Residents of Rangward, a small hamlet, were forced to flee after the surrounding Banderkot hill developed dangerous cracks following 08 October 2005 earthquake and floods washed away all their cultivable land, leaving all the 82 families, which contain some 400 people homeless and jobless. Two main concerns of villagers, that they should have a permanent place to live in and some land they could cultivate for their livelihood, are alarming if ignored, for few more months starvation of humans and cattle cannot be avoided. (KEYSTONE/EPA/ALTAF QADRI)