UAE relief aid for Afghanistan earthquake victims
The United Arab Emirates sent a relief aid plane to Afghanistan on Friday to help earthquake victims carrying 30 tons of emergency food, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.
WAM reported that the dispatch of the aid plane was in implementation of the directives of the UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, to operate an air bridge to rescue the earthquake victims in Afghanistan.
The UAE aid was sent through the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation for Humanitarian Action and the UAE Red Crescent Authority, in logistical coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
WAM pointed out that this joint relief between the UAE humanitarian institutions comes as a continuation of the UAE good approach, and to help the affected, the poor and the needy in various brotherly and friendly countries, in order to consolidate the value of the boundless giving that has characterized the UAE for the past fifty years.
The earthquake, which occurred Wednesday 44 kilometers south-east of the Afghan city of Khost, killed 1,500 people, injured more than 2,000 others and damaged hundreds of houses, all at a depth of 51 kilometers, officials said.
