US Navy Ships Help Quake Relief Effort
October 10, 2009
Quake survivors line up for food on Thursday in Padang. (Photo: Bagus Indahono, EPA) Related articles
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Two US warships arrived off the Indonesian coast on Friday to assist
with the aid effort for survivors of last week's 7.6-magnitude
earthquake, the US embassy said.
The USS Denver with helicopter
and lift capabilities and the USS McCampbell carried five military
helicopters to ferry supplies and relief
workers to isolated villages hit by the disaster.
A
US military field hospital with capacity for 400 people is operational
in the worst-hit city of Padang, on the west Sumatran coast, and
another 45 tonnes of humanitarian supplies were on their way, said the embassy.
Almost
800 people were killed in the September 30 quake, according to the
latest official death toll. Aid workers believe the final toll could be
more than 3,000.About
100,000 homes were completely destroyed
and entire villages were wiped out in landslides, leaving an estimated
500,000 people homeless.
AFP
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