HARIPUR, Dec 27: The district government has dispatched a batch of 94 volunteers to help the Pakistan army in reconstruction and rehabilitation activities in Mansehra. District Nazim Yousuf Ayub Khan told a gathering on Tuesday that the volunteers had been sent on a request of the divisional relief commissioner.

Pakistan Red Crescent Society district secretary Ejaz Khan and Muhammad Sadaqat of the Human Development Organization were also resent on the occasion.

The skilled volunteers sent to the quake-hit areas included masons, steel-fixers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, drivers and cooks.

The nazim said that the district government had so far dispatched 96 truckloads of foodstuff, warm clothes, blankets, quilts and other necessities for quake victims.

He said the district government would set up a tent village near Padhana with the collaboration of donor agencies and added that initially 10,000 quake victims would be accommodated in the proposed tent village.