Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 10:29 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 17, Colombo: The Government of India today has dispatched the second consignment of a US$ one million relief package to Sri Lanka for the flood-affected people in the North, East and Central parts of the country.An Indian Air Force IL-76 aircraft carrying the second shipment of 21 tonnes of relief items has arrived at the Katunayake airport today.
The aid material included sugar, pulses, milk powder, around 20,000 ready to eat meals, 20,000 water purifier tablets and one thousand mattresses according to an IAF official.
The first consignment of about 25 tonnes arrived in Sri Lanka on January 14.
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