India starts airlifting quake relief to China.

Beijing: In the first-ever major humanitarian assistance to China, India on Saturday began airlifting relief material to the earthquake-hit neighbour.
An IAF IL-76 plane carried the first consignment of tents, cutting machines, blankets, water purifiers, generators and other relief material to Chengdu, capital of worst-hit Sichuan Province on Saturday afternoon.
The 36-tonne consignment, part of five million dollar humanitarian assistance pledged by India, was transfered to the affected areas immediately after its arrival, Indian Embassy said here.
Another IL-76 aircraft will ferry relief material from Kanpur on Monday. The second consignment will include sleeping bags, wheel-chairs, stretchers, cranes and winches to be used in getting to people trapped under debris in the worst earthquake to hit China since 1976.
17/05/08 PTI/The Hindu

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