An
Indonesian soldier directs a truck to transport relief materials from
China at the Solo International Airport in the Central Java town of Solo,
Indonesia, June 3, 2006. The Chinese government sent relief materials
worth 10 million RMB yuan (1.25 million US dollars) on Saturday and Sunday
respectively to help victims of the Yogyakarta earthquake in
Indonesia. (Xinhua
Photo) |
SOLO, Indonesia, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The first batch
of China's 10 million yuan (1.25 million U.S. dollar) worth of relief materials
for Indonesia's quake victims arrived in Indonesia's Solo airport Saturday
afternoon.
The goods include medicine, medical equipment, tents,
sheets and power generators. The second batch will arrive here on Sunday.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's
Yogyakarta and surrounding areas on May 27, killing over 6,000 people, injuring
thousands of others and leaving nearly 200,000 homeless.
Before sending the relief materials, the Chinese government had offered 2 million U.S. dollars of aid in cash to Indonesia and sent a 40-member relief team composed of seismological experts andmedical workers to the country's hardest-hit Bantul district. Enditem [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
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