UN says over 190,000 need humanitarian aids after quakes, tsunami in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Monday that a total of 191,000 people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance after multiple quakes and an ensuing tsunami devastated Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.
A total of 56 percent of the figure were classified as rural population and the rest are urban population, the relief agency said.
Among the assistance desperately needed were foods, clean water and shelters, it added.