QUETTA, Sept 10: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is providing food items and other relief goods to flood-affected people of Balochistan through Pakistan Red Crescent Society.

An ICRC spokesman said that the committee responded quickly to the first bout of monsoon rains and flash flood in July by distributing food for 21,000 people in the Sibi district’s towns of Talli and Sultan Kot.

More relief assistance is planned to be distributed in coming days in this severely affected region.

Food and other items for 70,000 flood victims in Balochistan were purchased, packed and shipped by the ICRC to the Pakistan Red Crescent branches in the worst affected areas of Jaffarabad, Nasirabad and Sibi districts for distribution among the victims in August.

The ICRC delegation headed by Pascal Cuttat said the committee also provided relief supplies to people displaced from Balochistan to camps in Sindh and southern Punjab.