Aid flight to Libya from Leipzig/Halle Airport
Following the severe flood disaster in Libya on 10 September, the German Red Cross (DRK) has been sending the first humanitarian aid supplies by plane from Leipzig/Halle Airport since last Friday.
"The people are suffering, there is an enormous need for humanitarian aid. Many houses have been destroyed, the infrastructure has been massively damaged," says the secretary general of the German Red Cross (DRK) Christian Reuter. "With the aid flight, we are supporting the activities of our sister organisation, the Libyan Red Crescent."
The DRC relief transport by a 767 aircraft includes 1,000 buckets, four drinking water treatment plants, 23 drinking water tanks, ten drinking water pumps, one water laboratory and one generator. The approximately 13 t of relief supplies were loaded in Leipzig today, 29 September, and will be transported to Benghazi in the afternoon. (cj)