Fresh Chinese relief materials arrive at Myanmar biggest city
9/5/2008 17:14
A special big aircraft carrying about US$500,000 relief materials from
China arrived at the Yangon International Airport this morning as the country's
second-batch of such aid materials airlifted to Myanmar.
The another 60-ton
relief supplies, laden by Boeing 747-400 aircraft, mainly include medicine,
tent, food and drinking water purifier.
The aid constitutes part of the fresh
emergency aid of 30 million Chinese renminbi yuan.
Myanmar Deputy Minister of
Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Brigadier-General Kyaw Myint told Xinhua
at the scene that Myanmar thanks China again for the fresh aid, saying that
these relief supplies, along with those arriving from several other countries
and regions, are being hurriedly transported to the cyclone-hit regions.
The
same special Chinese aircraft had earlier brought 60-tons of relief supplies as
the first batch worth of US$500,000 to Yangon on Wednesday as part of a US$one
million emergency relief aid to cyclone-devastated Myanmar. The US$one million
also include emergency money aid of US$500,000.
The first batch of relief
supplies was made up of compressed food, tents and blankets among
others.
More relief materials from China will arrive at the Yangon airport
Saturday, the Chinese official sources said.
The deadly tropical cyclone
Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, severely hit last weekend five
divisions and states -- Yangon, Bago, Ayeyawaddy, Kayin and Mon, covering such
coastal towns in southwestern Ayeyawaddy division as Haing Gyi Island, Pathein,
Myaungmya, Laputta, Mawlamyinegyun, Kyaiklat, Phyarpon and Bogalay, and the
biggest city of Yangon and sustaining the heaviest ever casualties and
infrastructural damage.
According to an updated death toll released up to
this afternoon, A total of 22,997 people have died in the tropical cyclone storm
Nargis that swept the five divisions and states.
Altogether 42,119 people
remained missing, leaving 14,003 injured.
Xinhua
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