"We need to do trainings in the camps before we start the distribution of stoves and kerosene oil among survivors to save them from cold," Morgan Morris, a senior coordinator of the UN's refugee agency, told AFP.

Fire safety training and stove distribution began in some camps in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Sunday where a spell of rain and snowfall has plummeted the temperatures as low as -14 degrees Celsius (6.8 Fahrenheit).

Firefighting equipment would also be provided in camps, Morris said.

The survivors have no option but to light fires for warmth and cooking, but several tent blazes prompted authorities to ban the lighting of fires to contain further deaths.

Three children were killed on Friday, while nine people died last month in northern villages when their tents caught fire.

Earlier in December, eight people including two Turkish engineers were injured in a similar incident. One of the Turks died later in hospital in his home country.

The October 8 quake, the worst in Pakistan's history, killed nearly 74,000 people and rendered more than three million homeless in Pakistani Kashmir and parts of the country's North West Frontier Province.

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