GEORGE TOWN: Blankets and folding beds worth RM460,000 from the Buddhist Tzu-Chi Merits Society Malaysia are on their way to the Myanmar Red Cross Society.

The society's Penang commissioner Datuk Khoo Boo Leong said the items weighing 7.85 tonnes would be delivered using a military plane on Monday.

"On behalf of the Malaysian Government, an Air Force plane from the Royal Malaysian Air Force's airbase in Subang would deliver the items to the government in Myanmar.

"Two members from the society would accompany the plane and they would return on the same day after handing over the aid," he said on Saturday (April 5).

According to Khoo, the plane would also carry aid from the Malaysian Red Crescent Society worth RM54,021 and from the Kembara Kitchen worth RM40,000.