Countries dispatch emergency aid, personnel and tracking dogs to Lebanon as world reacts swiftly to deadly explosion
- Four planes and a ship with humanitarian aid, medical teams, firefighters, supplies and construction materials.- Search-and-rescue experts aboard three military planes loaded with a mobile clinic and tonnes of medical and sanitary supplies.- 50 firefighters, 39 rescuers with 4 dogs and a chemical rescue module.AustraliaTunisia- Emergency personnel and sniffer dogs.- 14 firefighters specialised in assessing chemical risks and damaged structures to provide technical support.
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, itself battling the Middle East's deadliest coronavirus outbreak, said Tehran stood "ready to offer medical and medicinal aid and help treat the injured".The World Health Organization said it was sending trauma and surgical kits from its Dubai base after the "shocking event" that comes at a "particularly difficult time in Lebanon".
Unusually, neighbouring Israel offered humanitarian aid, to a country with which it is still technically at war, via international intermediaries.
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