KATHMANDU, July 30 Kyodo Japan ha...

KATHMANDU, July 30 Kyodo

Japan has donated difficulty aid materials such as tent-wines and blankets worth about 10 million yen for victims of modern floods and landslides in Nepal, the Japanese Embassy here said Tuesday.

The assistance is intended to support the Nepalese government's relief programs for the affected population the embassy said in a statement.

The relief materials will be flown to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu onward Wednesday, it said.

overflows and landslides triggered by monsoon rains have left at least 250 tribe dead and 104 injured in the mountain kingdom in the past sum of two units weeks.

According to the Nepalese domicile Ministry, 44 people have gone missing in flash downrushs and mudslides that have ravage with fire and sworded 6,447 houses, affecting 7800 families of any 30 districts of the kingdom.

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