World Vision Indonesia has sent 2, 000 packages of non-food relief aid to quake-hit Bengkulu province in Sumatra Island, the manager of the organization Jimmy Nadapdap said in a press release Tuesday.
The manager said that the aid packages included sarongs, blankets and sleeping mats.
"We expect the goods to arrive in Bengkulu Tuesday afternoon and we hope to be able to start our distribution on Wednesday,"he said.
Fadli Usman, one of the World Vision staff conducting assessments in Bengkulu, said that a number of villages in the province were among the hardest-hit by the quake last week.
"Some villages here have still not received any support yet because they are located so far away from the main road," Fadli said.
The National Development Planning Agency said on Sunday the number of houses and other properties damaged in Bengkulu and West Sumatra provinces reached over 15,000.
However, reports from the fields were much more severe. Bengkulu Governor Agusrin M. Najamuddin estimated on Sunday that the total number of houses destroyed or damaged had now reached almost 30,000 in Bengkulu alone, according to the organization.
Twenty-three people were killed in a powerful earthquake of 7.9 Richter scale last week in Bengkulu province of Sumatra Island.
The quake with the epicenter located in western waters off Sumatra island was followed by a string of tremors with magnitudes ranges from four to more than seven. Scores of tsunami warning were issued
Indonesia is laid at a vulnerable zone called "the Pacific Ring of Fire" where two continental plates meet, causing frequent volcanic movements.
Source: Xinhua
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