China Red Cross Society Provides Relief in Wake of Earthquake

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, February 25, 2003

China Red Cross Society Provides Relief in Wake of Earthquake

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Red Cross Society (CRCS) of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest Chin, dispatched a rescue team to the earthquake-hit Jiashi and Bachu counties Monday afternoon in the wake of Monday morning's massive earthquake.

The first financial donation in the amount of 250,000 yuan (30,230 US dollars), would sent promptly to the affected area Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, 2,000 cotton-padded quilts and 1,000 cotton-padded overcoats are ready for delivery, said Rahfu Abbas, vice-chairman of local CRCS in the autonomous region.

The rigid weather in Jiashi and Bachu counties is still freezing cold, with their temperatures plunging below zero degrees Celsius (32 Fahrenheit) at night, menacing those victims left without shelters.

Despite the local government's prompt and strenuous efforts to provide relief goods, quake victims are still badly in need of shelters, warm cotton quilts and overcoats, said Wang Hong, a local prefectural government official.

Jiashi-Bachu quake-hit area are in an acute shortage of huge quantities of quake relief goods, he noted. Those relief goods in particular need include tents, cotton-padded quilts and overcoats, felt rugs, coal, food as well as medical apparatuses and equipment.

The latest figures from the autonomous regional seismological bureau show that the death toll in the quake has reached 257.

The powerful earthquake magnitude 6.8 on the Richter scale jolted the area at 10:03 a.m. Monday (Beijing Time).

In a seven-year period following 1996, a total of 18 minor quakes magnitude over five on the Richter scale have struck the area, leaving a total of 47 people dead and another 255 others wounded.

Jiashi county, one of the epicenters, in particular, have experienced six major quakes magnitude over 6 in the past decade.

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