More aircraft, laden with relief materials from the international community, continued to touch down at the Yangon International Airport Monday for the delivery to the cyclone-devastated regions in Myanmar.
These aid supplies included the first batch from the United States, while others were from Malaysia, Russia, India and Greece as well as the International Committee for the Red Cross and Medicines Sans Frontiers.
Monday's relief goods respectively comprised tons of mosquito nets, purified drinking water, water purified tablets, tents, blankets, medicine, cloth, construction materials, noodle, plastics sheets, generators, canned meat and fish and ready-to-eat food.
International humanitarian aid has been pouring into Myanmar since last week with aircraft carrying various relief materials from different countries and organizations landing at the airport one after another for Myanmar's homeless cyclone survivors.
Thee international aid goods, along with those donated by different walks of life at home, have been or are being successively transported by the Myanmar side to the disaster-hit Ayeyawaddy delta region as reported.
Two more U.S. airplanes will land in the country on Tuesday to bring in more relief supplies, a U.S. diplomat said.
A deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, severely hit in early May 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.
The cyclone caused the heaviest ever casualties and infrastructural damage.
According to an official updated death toll Sunday, a total of 28,485 people have lost their lives in the cyclone storm, with altogether 33,416 people remained missing.
Source:Xinhua
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