Islamabad, May 2 (IANS) Pakistan sent more relief assistance to the earthquake-hit people in Nepal on Saturday, officials said.
“At the instructions of the prime minister, two plane loads of relief items were dispatched to Kathmandu on Saturday,” Xinhua news quoted the foreign ministry as stating.
Two C130 aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force carried over 600 tents and four tonnes of medicines and dry food items. About a dozen Nepalese postgraduate medical students in Pakistan were also airlifted to look after their countrymen.
The prime minister has approved provision of 20,000 tents, 20 tonnes of rice and medicines to help quake-hit Nepal, as requested by the Nepalese authorities, the foreign ninistry statement said.
The toll in the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Nepal on April 25 has climbed to 6,841 and more than 14,000 people have been reported injured.