Food to quake victims stopped

Food to quake victims stopped

JAMBI, Jambi: Provincial administration spokesman Fuad M.
Yusuf said Saturday distribution of food supplies to quake
victims in Kerinci regency have been stopped as of Oct. 21.

He said the stoppage was based on a social service ministerial
decree that states that food for victims of natural disasters
should be supplied for no more than a week after the calamity
strikes.

"In fact we should have stopped the supplies a week earlier,"
he told Antara news agency.

The distribution period was extended for a week upon
recommendations from the provincial administration and religious
figures, he added.

Eighty-five people were killed, more than 1,800 injured and
17,00 houses damaged, or destroyed, in the earth quake measuring
seven on the Richter scale that struck around midnight on Oct. 7.
(imn)