Chief Executive CY Leung has expressed his deepest sympathies on behalf of the Government and the Hong Kong people to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Nepal, in a letter of condolence to Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav.
The earthquake caused serious injury and loss of life.
Mr Leung said the Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee would expeditiously process related funding proposals for emergency relief programmes to enable the provision of early relief to the needy.