UAE extends $100mln aid to Kerala

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Thiruvananthapuram -UAE also formed a national emergency committee to help the flood victims in Kerala.

The UAE government has extended $100 million as financial assistance to rebuild the flood-ravaged Indian state of Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Tuesday.

"Malayalis from all corners of the world have offered help. Millions of those Malayalis treat the Gulf countries as their second home," Vijayan said during a media briefing in Kerala.

He noted that the UAE has stood by Kerala in its hour of need.

"The UAE government is sharing our grief. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has spoken to Prime Minister (Narendra Modi). The UAE has offered assistance of $100 million (Rs 700 crore)."

The chief minister lauded the benevolence shown by the UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

The UAE government had formed a national emergency committee to help the flood victims.

Sheikh Khalifa has instructed the formation of a national emergency committee to provide relief to Kerala.

Torrential rain finally let up, giving some respite for thousands of marooned families, but authorities feared an outbreak of disease among the hundreds of thousands crammed into relief camps.

More than one million people are now packing relief camps to escape devastating monsoon floods in Kerala, where more than 410 people have died, officials said.

A state government spokesman said that 1,028,000 people were now recorded in about 3,200 relief camps across the state.

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