Source: Press TV
Iran's Red Crescent Society says about 30 tones of humanitarian aid including
food, tents and medicine in the company of a group of rescuers arrived in Haiti.
Iranian Red Crescent Society
The head of Iran's Red Crescent Society's Public
Relations department said supplies from Iran landed in Haiti on Monday evening.
"Tents, sugar, tuna fish and mosquito nets, and detergents are among Iran's aid
supplies to the disaster-hit nation," explained Hadi Behdad.
"Iran has also dispatched a group of 30 doctors and rescuers to the
tremor-stricken country of Haiti," Behdad said.
PARSA Call to Action Support
Disaster Relief for Earthquake Victims in Haiti
Iran's relief supplies had been sent to Haiti via
a cargo plane Saturday morning. The plane had a stop in the Venezuelan capital
of Caracas.
A devastating earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, struck Haiti on 12
January 2010, killing thousands and affecting many thousands more.
Haitian Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime says the death toll from the
devastating earthquake could reach 200,000.The earthquake is the largest to have
hit Haiti in over two hundred years.
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