A helicopter of the Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department was used to send dry foodstuff to 140 heads of households at four flood-affected longhouses in Bukit Mabong, Kapit, today.

The aid was sent by air as it would have taken about six hours by four-wheel-drive through logging routes to reach the longhouses.

Bukit Mabong district officer Robert Liman Deli said the foodstuff was...