Death toll in Pakistan quake rises to 215

Authorities scrambled to help earthquake survivors in the frigid mountains of southwestern Pakistan on Thursday as the death toll rose to 215.

The 6.4-magnitude quake hit an area of Pakistan's Baluchistan province near the Afghan border before dawn Wednesday, demolishing an estimated 2,000 homes in a string of villages.

"Oh God, what have you done?" wailed one woman as she surveyed the ruins of hard-hit Wam village. The woman, who did not give her name, said she had lost two brothers, two sons and a sister-in-law.

More than 24 hours after the temblor struck the impoverished region, residents and emergency workers mounted a final search …