GLOBALink | Chinese company donates supplies to flood-affected people in NW Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- China Gezhouba Group Co., Ltd. (CGGC), the constructor of the Mohmand Dam Project in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, donated relief materials of over 700,000 Pakistani rupees (about 2,942 U.S. dollars) to local villagers affected by floods.
The relief materials included rice, flour, cooking oil, and bottled water.
The supplies were jointly donated by the Chinese and Pakistani employees of the company and handed over to local government and charity organizations.
More than a dozen villages in the province were flooded by swollen rivers following heavy rainfalls.
According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the total death toll in Pakistan from this season's monsoon rains and floods since mid-June has risen to around 1,545, along with 12,860 injured.
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