Swat injured treated in hospital, civilians flee fighting in Buner

Описание: (10 May 2009)
Peshawar - 10 May 2009
1. Wide exterior of Lady Reading Hospital
2. Hospital entrance
3. Interior of ward, injured on beds
4. Injured man from Swat
5. Close of man's face showing stitches on chin
6. Wide of elderly man from Buner District receiving treatment
7. Mid of injured elderly man
8. Man's left leg in cast
9. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Vox pop, Umer Gul, son of injured man:
"This is my father. He's 80 years old. He was outside his house in Buner. He didn't know about the curfew and suddenly the army opened fire on him and he was injured."
10. Injured man being wheeled on gurney
11. Wide exterior of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar
12. Close up of sign reading (English) 'Lady Reading Hospital'
Ambyla - 10 May 2009
13. Wide of sign saying "Welcome to Buner," police station next to it
14. People standing on street
15. Pick up truck loaded with chicken
17. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Vox pop, Qulander Baba, resident of Chinar:
"I am going to Chinar. We left our house stuff and cattle there before I took out my family and kids. I bring the truck for the stuff and cattle and I am waiting in Ambyla because the road is blocked."
18. Man sleeping inside his vehicle
19. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Vox pop, Qulander Baba, resident of Chinar:
"I don't know at what time there will be relaxation of the curfew."
Jab Abad - 10 May 2009
20. Various of soldier talking on radio to get the permission for journalist to pass, shot through barbed wire
21. Bullet casing on the road
22. Low angle of sign UPSOUND: artillery firing
23. Soldier walking, shot through barbed wire
STORYLINE:
Thousands of fearful civilians - many on foot or donkey-pulled carts - streamed out of a conflict-ridden Pakistani valley on Sunday as authorities briefly lifted a curfew.
The army said it had killed scores of militants in the latest fighting.
Pakistan has urged residents of the Swat Valley to leave over the past week, while its warplanes have pounded the militant-held valley and surrounding areas in a US-backed operation the prime minister has called a "war of the country's survival."
The army said on Sunday afternoon it had killed at least 180 suspected militants over the previous 24 hours, adding that around 140 bodies of alleged militants were discovered in Shangla, a district next to Swat where fighting appears to have greatly intensified.
In Swat, the main town of Mingora was relatively calm, but the army statement reported some 50 to 60 militants had died on Sunday in various parts of the mountainous valley.
Two soldiers also died in the fighting, including one who succumbed to injuries suffered on Friday, the army said.
Military officials could not be reached immediately to reconcile the figures given in the statement, and the toll could not be confirmed independently.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have already fled the valley, seeking refuge with relatives or flooding relief camps, adding a humanitarian crisis to the nuclear-armed nation's economic, political and other woes.
Once the curfew was lifted early on Sunday, more residents in Swat towns tried to get out any way they could - on motorbikes, animal-pulled carts, rickshaws or simply on foot.
A ban on civilian vehicles entering the valley complicated the exodus for those without cars.
One man in Ambyla said he was trying to return to Chinar to collect belongings and livestock, left when he fled with his family, but the road was blocked.
Taliban fighters were visible in Mingora. Army helicopters briefly fired on two neighbourhoods in the city, but overall the fighting was significantly less than in previous days.

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