Aid from neighbors reaches Yemen as cyclone eases
Tropical Cyclone Chapala batters Mukalla, Yemen, on Monday. (AP)
ADEN: Relief aid started to be flown in to Yemen on Wednesday as a rare
tropical cyclone eased into a depression after wreaking havoc in parts
of the war-torn country.
Cyclone Chapala weakened after making landfall Tuesday in mainland Yemen, triggering heavy flash floods after severely striking the Arabian Sea island of Socotra.
A fisherman drowned on Wednesday as the storm generated high waves off the southern port city of Aden and flooded its seafront Abyan Road, his union said.
Three military planes sent by Oman landed in Socotra with 54 tons of food and medicine, Saba state news agency reported, adding that six more planes from the sultanate were expected by Thursday.
The UAE also dispatched a plane loaded with 20 tons of relief aid to Socotra, WAM said.
The shipment included tents and blankets, in addition to food.
More than 200 people were injured and dozens of houses and hamlets severely damaged or washed away when Chapala hit Socotra, according to Salem Zaher, mayor of the island’s main district Hadibo.
Socotra is located 350 km off the Yemeni mainland.
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has cited reports of three fatalities and 34 injured in Yemen due to the cyclone.
The World Health Organization has said it delivered trauma kits for 1,000 patients in coastal Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadramawt in southeast Yemen.
Cyclone Chapala weakened after making landfall Tuesday in mainland Yemen, triggering heavy flash floods after severely striking the Arabian Sea island of Socotra.
A fisherman drowned on Wednesday as the storm generated high waves off the southern port city of Aden and flooded its seafront Abyan Road, his union said.
Three military planes sent by Oman landed in Socotra with 54 tons of food and medicine, Saba state news agency reported, adding that six more planes from the sultanate were expected by Thursday.
The UAE also dispatched a plane loaded with 20 tons of relief aid to Socotra, WAM said.
The shipment included tents and blankets, in addition to food.
More than 200 people were injured and dozens of houses and hamlets severely damaged or washed away when Chapala hit Socotra, according to Salem Zaher, mayor of the island’s main district Hadibo.
Socotra is located 350 km off the Yemeni mainland.
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has cited reports of three fatalities and 34 injured in Yemen due to the cyclone.
The World Health Organization has said it delivered trauma kits for 1,000 patients in coastal Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadramawt in southeast Yemen.
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