Relief materials from Thailand arrive for storm-affected people

The Thai private sector, the Thai Red Cross Society and the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Association in Thailand donated humanitarian aid of temporary tents, shelters, solar lamps, rescue kits, insecticidal mosquito nets, and foodstuffs including canned fish and instant noodles by two Royal Thai Air Force C-130 planes which arrived at Yangon International Airport yesterday.
The donated provisions were handed over to Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Than Swe by Thai Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Mongkol Visitstump.
Yangon Region government’s Minister of Social Affairs U Aung Win Thein and officials from the Disaster Management Centre and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs attended the handover event.
The humanitarian aid donated by the Thai private sector, the Thai Red Cross Society and the Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Association will be sent and distributed to the people in the areas affected by Mocha. — MNA/TS