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India sends third air consignment to cyclone victims in Myanmar
May 8, 2008: (ANI) New Delhi, May 8: India dispatched yet another consignment of aid to cyclone-hit Myanmar today.
An Indian
Air Force transport plane IL-76 carrying over 32 tonnes of relief material
including tents, blankets and medicines flew from New Delhi
for Yangon.
Already two Indian Naval ships carrying essential relief
material supplies berthed alongside at naval jetty Yangon
on Wednesday.
They were the first ships with aid material to arrive in Myanmar.
Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare Relief and Resettlement Major
General Maung Maung Swe received INS Rana and Kirpan with the disaster relief
material.
Relief teams have heen finding it tough to reach stricken
areas, mostly in the low-lying Irrawaddy
River delta, have been
difficult, in large part because of the destruction of roads and communications
outlets by the storm.
In Yangon, many roofs
were ripped off even sturdy buildings, suggesting the severe damage in the
shanty towns that lie on the outskirts of the city of five million people.
Shunned by the West for detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and
its dismal human rights record, Myanmar
has been the target of Western sanctions for years.