UN agency to continue quake-zone food drops

A vital injection of new funds will sustain United Nations food drops to victims of south Asia’s earthquake for at least two more months in one of the biggest-ever helicopter airlifts of aid, UN officials said today.

The UN World Food Program has received $14m (€12m) in new donations and three British military Chinook choppers will this week help in food distribution, along with dozens already in the air from the Pakistani army and other countries.