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Red Cross Relief Activities in Ryongchon

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is conducting brisk relief activities for healing the damage caused by the explosion at Ryongchon Railway Station in North Phyongan Province on April 22 and stabilizing the living of the victims. No sooner had the accident occured than officials of the Ryongchon County branch of the society called an emergency meeting and informed the provincial branch and the Central Committee of the society of the disaster.
    And they appealed to volunteers in the county to turn out in emergency relief activities for the sufferers.
    In response to the appeal, nearly 400 volunteers of county instantly set up first-aid posts in five places and provided medical services to the injured.
    The DPRK Red Cross Society took a measure to supply the victims with some 2,000 tents, 14,000 blankets, hundreds of cartons of first-aid medicines and other relief goods which had been kept in the province for possible disasters.
    The society is making every possible effort to help the sufferers recover from the damage and stabilize their life. It has been joined by other nations' Red Cross organizations in relief activities.
    As of May 5, six Red Cross organizations including those of Denmark, Finland, Canada and Australia have rendered drugs and kitchen utensils to the victims and Norwegian, Dutch and many other Red Cross organizations expressed their willingness to offer aid to them.
    The society, together with the delegation members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies which has been supporting Red Cross activities in the DPRK, is properly arranging transport of aid supplies to the ravaged area and their distribution among the victims. It is also working hard to find out and solve what the victims need in addition to the aid supplies.
    The Red Cross activities are highly appreciated by the Ryongchon County People's Committee and the county people