Italy gives 200,000 euros for Indonesian tsunami victims

Rome, Oct 2 (IANS/AKI) Italy's government has donated 200,000 euros of emergency funding to help victims of Indonesia's devastating earthquake and tsunami that has killed over 1,300 people, the Foreign Ministry said.

Italy's contribution will be used to provide shelter, relief supplies and basic medical services to the disaster-hit population, in urban areas, where the efforts of the Indonesian Red Cross are concentrating, but also in remote areas which are the most difficult to reach, a Ministry statement said.

The funds emergency funds were arranged on the initiative of Deputy Foreign Minister Emanuela Del Re in response to an appeal launched by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, according to the statement.

The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi on Friday, setting off a tsunami that hit the coastal city of Palu on Sulawesi's west coast.

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