A Jordanian air force plane took off Sunday, November 25 for Algeria with $250,000 worth of humanitarian aid for flood victims in the North African country, the official Petra news agency said.
The plane carried 17.5 tons of medicine, medical equipment, food and blankets donated by Jordan's Hashemite Charity Agency together with local drug manufacturers, its secretary general Abdel Salam Abbadi told Petra.
A total of 748 people were killed in Algiers which was hit on November 10 by storms and a mudslide that affected mostly the working class district of Bab El Oued. — (AFP, Amman)
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