MADRID, Spain – Spain will ship search and rescue groups and different assist to quake-hit Morocco after it acquired a proper request for assist from Rabat, Spanish international minister Jose Manuel Albares stated Sunday.
“It is a sign of Spanish solidarity and of the sense of friendship which unites the people of Spain with the people of Morocco,” he stated throughout an interview with Catalunya Radio, including he acquired a name from his Moroccan counterpart requesting the help within the early hours of Sunday.
“It will be as much aid as Morocco needs, at first what we are setting in motion are search and rescue teams because it is urgent to try to find the greatest number of people alive to save them. When it is time for reconstruction, Spanish aid will also be present.”
Albares didn’t present additional particulars however an inside ministry spokesman stated the federal government was making ready to “immediately” ship 65 members of Spain’s Military Emergencies Unit (UME) to Morocco to assist in the search and rescue operation.
The UME is a physique of the armed forces that was created to intervene shortly in emergency conditions resembling forest fires, floods and earthquakes.
A UME unit was despatched to Turkey in February following a devastating earthquake and helped rescue six folks, together with a mom and two kids, in line with Spain’s protection ministry.
The strongest-ever quake to hit Morocco has killed at the very least 2,012 folks and injured over 2,059, lots of them critically, in line with the newest official figures. — Agence France-Presse
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