First Chinese rescue team returns home from Pakistan
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The first Chinese rescue team, with 50-odd members, returned to Beijing Wednesday after its nearly twenty-day relief mission in flood-hit Pakistan.
The team left Beijing on Aug. 26, and arrived on Aug. 27 local time in Thatta, southern Pakistan, the worst hit area after the month-long devastating floods, to provide medical services to flood victims.
Mostly composed of experienced medical doctors and nurses, the team rescued and treated more than 11,200 people during its mission.
"The team carried the torch of China's friendship to Pakistan, and had left behind an imprint on the hearts of the people of Pakistan," said Pakistani Ambassador to China Masood Khan when addressing a homecoming ceremony at the airport Wednesday.
Noting the Pakistan-China friendship spanned all situations, Masood Khan said China's flood relief assistance to Pakistan had been "timely, generous and unconditional."
The second Chinese rescue team flew into Thatta aboard a chartered plane Tuesday to continue relief work there. They will focus on providing medical services for local residents.
China has so far offered Pakistan an upward of 320 million yuan (some 47 million U.S. dollars) worth of humanitarian supplies in response to the worst flooding in Pakistan's recent history.
