Floating Hospital BMC CSHA "USNS Comfort" in Haiti Bashny.Net

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The US Navy hospital ship «USNS Comfort» came to the shores of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where the January 12 devastating earthquake. The total number of US troops in Haiti reached 11, 5 thousand people. Marines and US Army soldiers engaged in Haiti, delivery and distribution of water, food and medicines, assistance to victims and the protection of humanitarian goods, reports Lenta.ru

Haiti on January 20 there was a new earthquake, which reached magnitude 6 1. On the same day, the authorities confirmed that mass graves had already buried 75 thousand earthquake victims. According to official estimates, often as a result of the disaster could have died from 50 thousand to several hundred thousand people.