islamabad the death toll in the devastating earthquake that jolted pakistans southwestern baluchistan province rose to 370 on wednesday with officials saying that many people are still trapped under the rubble the 77magnitude earthquake struck on tuesday afternoon with its epicentre in awaran district at a depth of 10 miles flattening entire villages in the impoverished and sparselypopulated parts of baluchistan six districts awaran kech gwadar panjgur chaghi and khuzdar and a population of over 300000 have been affected by the earthquake said jan muhammad buledi spokesman for the baluchistan government he said rescue teams were working to recover bodies but the priority was to move the injured to hospitals as soon as possible a difficult task given the remote and rugged terrain with little basic infrastructure were seriously lack medical facilities and theres no space to treat injured people in local hospitals buledi said adding that the seriously injured people were shifted to karachi on helicopters theres nothing and patients are dying said rehmatullah muhammad hassani an earthquake survivor told a private news channel from a hospital bed in awaran he said the patients were facing difficulties in getting basic first aid treatment there are no doctors and paramedics he said pakistans military was among the first to respond to the crisis having a heavy presence in the area because its fighting a longdrawn separatist insurgency in the province abdul rasheed baluch awarans local government official said around 90 of houses in the district have been destroyed almost all mud houses have collapsed weve been busy in rescue efforts since last night and fear recovering more bodies from under the rubble he said many people in the affected areas do not have access to food drinking water or tents the situation worsened with the extremely hot climate and closure or destruction of utility stores television footage showed collapsed houses cavedin roofs and people in the open outside their homes with debris of mud and bricks scattered around