China to provide $7.5m in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan

Humanitarian aid scheduled to go to Khost Airport, following an earthquake in Afghanistan, is loaded on a plane in Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar June 25, 2022. REUTERS/Imad Creidi

China will provide humanitarian aid worth 50 million yuan ($7.5 million) to Afghanistan after it was hit by an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people this week, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday.

The aid will include tents, towels, beds and other materials, the ministry said in a statement on its website. The 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan early on Wednesday near the Pakistani border, about 160 km (100 miles) southeast of Kabul.

($1 = 6.6878 Chinese yuan renminbi)