More Relief Materials Supplied to Flood-hit Areas

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Trains and trucks carrying relief goods are arriving in the flood-hit areas of the DPRK one after another.

As of Sept. 12, more than 1 000 tons of food, a great deal of foodstuffs and millions of pieces of daily necessities, including clothes, quilts and utensils, were supplied to inhabitants in the disaster areas of the country's North Hamgyong Province.

Many industrial establishments under the Ministry of Light Industry have turned out a large quantity of garments and shoes for the inhabitants in the flood-hit areas.

Also, a great deal of medicines, thousands of tons of cement and several hundred tons of iron and steel and fuel were provided to propel the flood damage rehabilitation drive. -0-