Essential relief supplies including basic food items and water have been donated by people from all across China to help residents being housed at temporary resettlement sites following Tuesday's deadly earthquake in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
The powerful 6.8-magnitude quake struck Dingri County in Xigaze City on Tuesday morning, claiming at least 126 lives, injuring 188 others, and causing the collapse of more than 3,600 houses.
Several towns and villages in Dinrgi have been badly affected, including the remote and mountainous Cuoguo Town. Located at an altitude of approximately 4,200 meters above sea level, the town has been one of the hardest-hit in the disaster, with 158 houses being completely destroyed.
Learning of the situation, many warm-hearted people from all over China have sent food, drinking water, and other living materials to help those in the region. The supplies have been loaded onto trucks and sent out to the disaster zone.
"We prepared five trucks of mineral water and one truck of instant noodles. When trouble occurs at one spot, help comes from all quarters," said Dawa Dunzhu, one of the donors. "We urgently prepared vehicles, daily necessities, instant noodles, sausages, and water, hoping to do whatever we can to help the quake-affected residents," said Yuan Xing, another volunteer helping deliver the items.
In addition, a batch of over 1,000 pressure cookers donated by several enterprises have been distributed to the residents of Cuoguo Town, with nearly 4,000 more still waiting to be sent out.
These pots and the various food items are enabling quake-affected residents to cook hot meals in their temporary tents, helping them fend off the cold winter weather as overnight temperatures have reportedly plunged as low as minus 18 degrees Celcius.
Relief materials, food items donated to help quake-affected residents in Xizang
