an hour agoFrance sends three aid planes to Beirut, Macron visits Lebanon tomorrow
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)France will send three military planes of emergency teams, medical equipment and mobile clinics to Beirut on Wednesday. Furthermore, French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit the town destroyed by the blast Thursday, the AFP news agency reports. The first two military planes will be launched with 55 workers [...]
Furthermore, French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit the town destroyed by the blast Thursday, the AFP news agency reports.
The first two military planes will be launched with 55 rescue search teams, 25 tonnes of sanitation and a mobile clinic, where as many as 500 people can be treated, the BBC reports, the Express broadcast.
The French presidency also announced that 12 other emergency team workers will be sent to Lebanon soon to help hospitals at the helm of Beyrut, where about four thousand people have been injured in the blast.
Another humanitarian plane will leave for Lebanon later Wednesday. Several members of the medical staff will travel with it. Marseilles, the city from which this plane will be launched, will send four doctors, three nurses and two firefighters.
