Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Military (TNI) is preparing three Cassa planes to provide relief aid to the victims of a powerful earthquake that struck the western Indonesian island of Simeulue on Wednesday.
"We are preparing the planes to airlift logistics and medicines," spokesman for the Iskandar Muda Regional Military Command Maj Dudi Dzulfadli said on Friday.
Only Cassa planes could land at the Lasikin airstrip on the island, he said.
Two of the planes are being made ready in Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh province, and the other in Medan, capital of North Sumatra province, he said.
An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck under the island off the western coast of Sumatra on Wednesday, leaving three people killed and 25 others injured.
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