Workers warn of aid bottleneck

Faizabad - Helicopters in a constant shuttle operation airlifted more injured from Afghanistan's devastated earth quake zone …

Faizabad - Helicopters in a constant shuttle operation airlifted more injured from Afghanistan's devastated earth quake zone yesterday as anxious aid workers warned of a food relief bottleneck.

Aid agencies said that the three helicopters ferrying injured to clinics were unable to take food and shelter materials to the remote distant hillside hamlets destroyed by last Saturday's massive tremor.

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