GERMANY: TWO PLANES WITH RELIEF GOODS SUPPLIED BY THE GERMAN RED CROSS LEFT FOR THE PAKISTANI CITY OF PESHAWAR

Record ID: 648303

  • Title: GERMANY: TWO PLANES WITH RELIEF GOODS SUPPLIED BY THE GERMAN RED CROSS LEFT FOR THE PAKISTANI CITY OF PESHAWAR
  • Date: 11th October 2001
  • Summary: (U6) COLOGNE-BONN AIRPORT, GERMANY (OCTOBER 11, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. LV OF ILYUSHIN PLANE ON TARMAC 0.05 2. SLV PALLETS WITH RELIEF GOODS IN BACK OF PLANE 0.10 3. LV GERMAN RED CROSS MEMBERS NEAR PLANE 0.14 4. SLV GERMAN BORDER POLICE ARMOURED VEHICLE DRIVING PAST 0.27 5. CU SIGN READING "DONATION FROM GERMAN RED CROSS" 0.32 6. SV/SLV GOODS ON TROLLEY (2 SHOTS) 0.42 7. LV RED CROSS WORKERS WALKING PAST PLANE 0.50 8. SLV RED CROSS WORKERS NEAR PALLETS 0.55 9. SLV/LV/SV RELIEF GOODS ON CONVEYOR BELT (3 SHOTS) 1.15 10. LV OF PLANE BEING LOADED 1.20 11. SLV FORKLIFT LOADING PLANE 1.26 12. LV OF PLANE 1.31 13. CU GERMAN RED CROSS LOGO ON BACK OF WORKER'S JACKET 1.44 14. LV OF CONTROL TOWER 1.49 15. SLV/LV PLANE TAKING OFF FOR PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (2 SHOTS) 2.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: COLOGNE-BONN AIRPORT, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVAEEKKDP3MWD41WT6YFMO2TYRHT
  • Story Text: Two planes with relief goods supplied by the German Red
    Cross have left for the Pakistani city of Peshawar, near the
    eastern Afghan border.



    Two Russian Ilyushin planes were loaded with 900 tents,
    some 10,000 blankets and a complete field hospital on Thursday
    (October 11) at Cologne-Bonn airport.

    The first two relief flights from the German Red Cross
    were destined for Peshawar in Pakistan before being taken to
    Afghanistan.

    The first plane carried a total of 900 tents, almost
    10,000 blankets and 500
    items of cooking equipment. The second plane carried an entire
    field hospital complete with two operating theatres, an x-ray
    machine and one hundred beds.

    The goods are worth some 2.5 million German marks (1.15
    million U.S. dollars) and weigh 90 tons.

    The first plane was due to land early morning in Peshawar
    to be onwardly transported
    to Afghanistan as quickly as possible.

    The relief operation is designed to help avoid a
    humanitarian disaster as hundreds of thousands of ill-fed
    Afghans have fled the cities or are gathered at border camps.

    A Red Cross spokeswoman said the goods would reach "the
    poorest of the poor."

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