Two Kuwait aid planes land at Beirut airport

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BEIRUT, Aug 9: Two Kuwaiti Air Force planes carrying food supplies Sunday land at Beirut International Airport just a few days after a seaport explosion in the Lebanese capital.

Speaking to KUNA, te pilot of the first plane, Colonel Firas Al-Khulaifi, said that this was the sixth plane carrying 50 tons of food and flour to the affected.

The second plane pilot said that his plane was the seventh of its kind and was carrying 60 tons of flour.

The Kuwaiti aid is meant to ease out the impacts of a powerful seaport blast near central Beirut on Tuesday, which killed more than a hundred people and left thousands displaced. (KUNA) —

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