Friday, October 17, 2014
Armed force supplies food to people of Vizag..
Relief operations conducted by armed forces on
Wednesday focused on visakapatnam, as the airforce flew in food packets from
vijayawda and rajahmundary to the devasted city.defence officials announced
that choppers carried 41 tonnes of food from Vijayawada and 17 tonnes from
rajahmundary to visakapatnam.
Following relentless work over the past few
days,tthe roads from the naval base and bhimunipatnam to vizag city was
cleared.efforts are underway to clear other arterial roads from vizag to all
important national highway 5,said navy official.The army rescued a total of 272
people and thee Indian air force flew 50 sortties to airlift 144.5 tonnes of
relief material to visakapatam and other areas