TOKYO, Aug 17 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Japan will provide emergency relief goods including tents and blankets to Colombia following a magnitude-7.4 earthquake that struck the South American country last week, Kyodo News reported, citing the Japanese Foreign Ministry on Monday.
Tokyo will send 200 tents and 1,200 blankets through the Japan International Cooperation Agency, along with items such as water purifiers and plastic containers, according to the ministry.
The death toll in the Aug 10 earthquake in western Colombia has reached more than 280 people, with over 4,100 others injured.
Search efforts continue in the affected areas, where numerous buildings collapsed, and nearly 200 people are still missing.
The International Organisation for Migration warned over the weekend that the risk of disaster victims becoming targets of human trafficking is high, given that the disaster areas overlap with the operational areas of drug trafficking organisations.
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