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HK Red Cross to provide supplies for Zhouqu

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-08-09 17:31

HONG KONG - Hong Kong Red Cross (HKRC) announced Monday that it will allocate relief supplies worth 900, 000 HK dollars (about $115,950) to mudslide-flattened Zhouqu in Northwest China after its disaster evaluation.

HKRC told that four of their staff had arrived at Zhouqu, a small county in Gansu province where hundreds of people were buried in mudslides, starting evaluating needs of people affected.

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HKRC, which has provides supplies worth over 3.6 million HK dollars for people suffering from flood or mudslide disaster on the Chinese mainland in recent rain season, said the supplies for Zhouqu would include food and drinking water for 20,000 people, as well as 1,600 "family packages" containing clothes, towels, soaps and other everyday necessities.

Rain-triggered mudslides swept through Zhouqu early Sunday, leaving at least 127 people dead and close to 1,300 missing as of 09:00 pm local time Sunday. Rescuers are still hunting for survivors.

About 45,000 people have been evacuated, according to a statement from the provincial civil affairs department.

By 10:50 am local time on Monday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs had sent four batches of relief supplies, including 5,200 tents, 20,000 cotton coats, and 8,000 folding beds to Zhouqu.