Pakistan ? Hundreds of survivors of Pakistan’s huge earthquake filled hospitals Thursday for treatment of pneumonia and flu as temperatures plunged below freezing with the arrival of the brutal Himalayan winter.

Officials said eight people have died from the harsh weather.

Hospitals in the quake zone treated more than 700 people suffering from pneumonia, flu, hypothermia and other weather-related ailments Wednesday, and hundreds more on Thursday, officials said.

A total of 3.5 million people lost their homes in the 7.6 earthquake of Oct. 8 that killed more than 87,000 people.

Mazhar Rashid Abbasi, an official with the Pakistani charity al-Khidmat Foundation, pleaded for funds to buy stoves, blankets and warm clothes for quake victims living in the nine tent camps the charity is managing in Kashmir and northwestern Pakistan.

A 4.9 aftershock centered in the quake zone was felt Thursday in northwestern Pakistan, Islamabad and some areas of Kashmir, but there was no word on damage or casualties, said Sailur Rahman, an official at the meteorological department.