Spain proposed on Saturday to send rescue workers to Morocco after that country’s powerful earthquake killed at least 820 people, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares announced.
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“Spain has offered Morocco, if it considers it necessary, both rescue teams, which is the most important thing at this moment, but also its help in reconstruction once this moment is over,” the minister told journalists on the sidelines of the G20 summit India.
“What is important at the moment is to save as many lives as possible,” he stressed, pointing out that the Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME), as well as its aid organizations and the embassy, are “fully at the disposal of Morocco, the Moroccans “. People.”
The UME is a facility of the Spanish Armed Forces that can respond quickly to emergency situations such as forest fires, floods and earthquakes.
According to the Spanish Defense Ministry, an EMU team sent to Turkey last February after a devastating earthquake helped rescue six people, including a mother and two children. This earthquake in Turkey and neighboring Syria killed more than 55,000 people.