Intl community is continuously providing relief supplies

International community is continuously providing relief supplies for the areas hard hit by the Cyclone Nargis. On 7-June, two IL-76 and AN-12 aircraft carrying milk powder, tents, office facilities, tarpaulins and high energy biscuits weighing over 75 tons donated by WFP based in Thailand arrived at the Yangon International Airport at 7:45 am, 10:35 am and 3:17 pm, Jet star aircraft carrying 45 boxes of medicines donated through Myanmar Embassy in Singapore at 9 :00 am, four C-130 aircraft carrying candles, spoons, pots, blankets, mosquito nets, soaps, fiber cups, plastic buckets, fiber water bags, two water purificatjol1 units and two 10,000-liter water tank weighing over 2~ tons donated by the United States of America at 9:08 am, 10: 11 am, 10:55 am and 4:02 pm and AN-12 aircraft carrying nylon rope, plastic buckets and medicated mosquito nets weighing over 6 tons donated by Doctors without Border based in Switzerland at 10:38 am, respectively. Similarly, IL-76 aircraft carrying over 38 tons of tarpaulins donated by helicopter Doctors without Border based in Indonesia arrived at Yangon International Airport at 8:56 pm, on 6th June. Relief supplies donated by international community are continuously arriving by air. These relief supplies are systematically accepted at the Airport by Relief Supplies Acceptance Committees and are promptly sent to the victims in the storm hit areas by helicopters, cars, and vessels.

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• Myanmar
• Burma
• Cyclone
• Nargis