More relief supplies heading to quake zone
Updated: 2008-05-18 09:09
Li told a news briefing yesterday that officials had been continuously monitoring the environment in the quake zone and found 52 sources of drinking water in 11 areas met potability standards.
The State Council ordered the shipment of more fast food and bottled water as well as grain and cooking oil to the quake-hit areas.
Meanwhile, international emergency aid continued to flow into the quake zone.
The third batch of relief materials, including tents and food, arrived in Chengdu from Russia yesterday afternoon.
More urgent relief goods are delivered to Shifang in Sichuan, yesterday. Liu Haifeng
Russia had flown in 60 tons of humanitarian aid in two flights on Wednesday and Thursday, including tents and blankets.
Two Pakistani military aircraft arrived in Chengdu on Friday evening, carrying tents, blankets, bottled water and medicines.
A plane load of humanitarian aid from the Singaporean government arrived in Chengdu last night, including disinfectant tablets for drinking water, tents, stretchers, cutters, food and drinks.
The United States has provided more than $23 million in aid, Xinhua reported.
The self-sacrifice and generosity of ordinary people caught up in the disaster was a source of comfort in the stricken region.
On the road leading out of Wenchuan, men whose motorbikes were trapped temporarily between landslides or broken bridges offered the weak and injured rides along stretches of road that were still passable.
Those heading out offered spare food to people trekking into the area to look for their family members, and farmers and soldiers boiled water for travelers.
"Our house was up that hill but it collapsed in the quake, so this is just something I thought could help the other victims," said a woman stoking a wood fire under a huge pot of water, who like many helping out refused to give her name.
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