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Russia sends humanitarian aid to Chile
| Mar 14, 2010 09:22 Moscow Time |
Russia has sent two planeloads of humanitarian supplies to Chile as the country continues to overcome the aftermath of the quake it was hit by two weeks ago. As of today, Russia has already supplied some 60 tons of humanitarian cargo, including tents, electric generators, medicine and food. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry also opened a field hospital there, like the one they had had in Haiti in January. The 8.8-magnitude quake in Chile took the lives of about 500 people, leaving over 2 million homeless. A series of aftershocks struck Chile while the country’s new president, Sebastian Piñera, was being sworn in on Thursday.
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