Aircrafts carrying relief materials from the World Food Program (WFP), European Union (EU), China, Singapore, South Korea and Indonesia arrived at the Yangon International Airport Friday morning, the fourth day since international relief aid started to pour in on Tuesday.
Relief supplies generally include items of tent, mosquito net, power generator, medicine, water purifier, dry potato and pork, instant noodle, high-energy biscuit, cloth, zinc sheet, hammer and nail, and candle.
Over the last three days, relief aid had come from countries and region by air or by sea which include Thailand, China, Singapore, Italy, Bangladesh, India, Japan and Laos as well as China's Taiwan.
Myanmar Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Brigadier-General Kyaw Myint told Xinhua that these international relief supplies as well as those donated by different walks of life in Yangon are being successively airlifted to the disaster-hit regions, using five Myanmar military helicopters and plying between the Ayeyawaddy delta and Yangon.
The deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bayof 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 Thursday 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.
Source:Xinhua
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