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Article: Urgent: Chinese medical team arrives in Indonesian quake zone
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 29, 2006
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Urgent: Chinese medical team arrives in Indonesian quake zone
SOLO, INDONESIA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese medical team
arrived in Indonesia's quake-stricken Java island in early morning
Tuesday to join the international relief efforts after the
devastating earthquake that struck the island Saturday.
The plane carrying the 40-member team as well as 5 tons of medical
supplies landed on Adi Sucipto Airport in the Central Java town of
Solo, some 60 km north of Yogyakarta province where the quake caused
massive destruction and claimed thousands of lives.
"We will depart to Bantul once our stuffs are completely unloaded.
First we have to find the right place and then begin to work as soon ...