Aid Reaches Earthquake Victims
May 30, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
The first supplies of food and water started trickling in and reaching survivors of Saturday’s 6.3-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia, the Associated Press reports. Two U.S. military planes brought rice, noodles, and water to the island of Java, where the earthquake hit, and Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Malaysian relief workers have teamed up to provide medical care and emergency supplies to the survivors.
The earthquake has killed more than 5,400 people and has left about 200,000 without shelter, according to Indonesian officials. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that 22 countries have contributed or pledged aid to Indonesia, and has promised to make an emergency appeal later this week.
