But he said the helicopters had distributed 50 tons of material, including rice, molasses, bread and drinking water.

The Red Cross said it had managed to evacuate 33 seriously wounded people from the stadium and distributed 25 tons of food there.

In February, however, before the expulsions, relief organizations were able to distribute 27,000 tons of food to 1.8 million people.

He would like to be distributing 12 tons of food a month.

So far it has distributed more than 1,609 tons of books to more than 180 countries.

On one day the union distributed five tons of food to its workers.

Today, for the first time since the battle began, the Red Cross distributed 30 tons of food to 6,000 people.

It has already helped more than a million people and distributed 17,000 metric tons of food and seeds.

They evacuated nearly 6,500 men, women, and children of 46 nations, and distributed more than 8 million tons of food.

Volunteers assisted in distributing 515 tons (467 t) of ice, along with 21,000 sandbags throughout the district.