The texts used in this piece are fragments taken from early news reports on the earthquake found in The Independent Online (UK) and the BBC World Service Online Edition. The fragments appear in a random order in the piece.

Here are the text fragments:

• disease has struck the camps
• a thousand cooking fires
• a tent shared by three families
• smoke chokes and stings the eyes
• time is running out
• beside the ruins of their home
• above Muzaffarabad
• his brothers huddle together
• armed gangs roam
• a fight broke out
• not even waterproof
• 200 cases of acute diarrhoea
• infection spreading
• outbreak of the cholera
• aid workers will only whisper it
• ground covered with human faeces
• not enough tents to go around
• not enough room
• international community has failed
• desperately underfunded
• second massive wave of death
• warned of by UN secretary general
• relief organisations struggle
• governments have failed
• winter looming
• clearing away the last of the rubble
• before the bulldozers
• walked more than 30 miles
• beg for food and tents
• with their bare hands
• the organisation needs $42m
• situation deteriorating
• reconstruction is a long way off
• the emergency life-saving phase
• such was their desperation
• it was a Biblical scene
• pinched with hunger
• clearly exhausted
• trying to reach people
• before roads are cut off
• unprecedented
• carrying 10kg of flour
• old suitcases and bits of sack
• no NGO has reached there
• up steep hillsides
• Yassir has to sleep outside
• waiting for the ceasefire line to open
• father was killed in the quake
• want to cross
• a year of natural disasters
• winter without shelter
• given up on waiting
• resorted to building crude shelters
• with bits of aluminium roofing
• thin plastic sheeting for a roof
• will not take the weight of snow
• people are still sleeping under plastic sheets
• $22 buys seven blankets
• can still donate
• a desperate, squalid place
• defecating in the open
• the shaking lasted for 6 minutes
• caused massive destruction
• disputed by India and Pakistan
• driving rain as night fell
• out of a 10-storey apartment block
• collapsed into rubble
• trying to pull survivors out
• death toll climbed steadily
• where houses are made of mud bricks
• villages had vanished
• hundreds of children died
• particularly distressing news
• they are finding it hard to cope
• the operation is unorganised
• isn't proper equipment
• helicopters are needed
• blocked by mudslides
• telephone lines are down
• three attempts to go to Muzaffarabad
• big rocks on the road
• situation is getting desperate
• impossible to approach Muzaffarabad
• tremors triggered widespread panic
• Kashmir is heavily militarised
• completely cut off from the rest of the country
• can't find out what's going on
• sending helicopters with medical teams
• too early to tell the exact magnitude of the damage
• communication is difficult
• the streets are empty
• an apartment block collapsed
• some very sad tales from those areas