France will send a field hospital to Libya to help flood victims following the passage of Cyclone Daniel on Sunday, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Tuesday.
“After the tragic floods in Libya, we send, at the request of the President of the Republic [Emmanuel Macron]the Civil Security field hospital,” stated the minister in the personal account of the social network
This Tuesday morning, the spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Anne-Claire Legendre, stated that France was ready to send “emergency aid” and “respond to the requests of the Libyan authorities.”
“Resources are being mobilized to provide emergency assistance to affected populations, in support of Libya’s efforts on the ground and in coordination with the United Nations,” Legendre added in a press conference.
France also expressed “its full solidarity with the Libyan people in this terrible experience.”
The floods in Libya have caused a considerable number of deaths, possibly thousands, and ten thousand missing, said an official from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) on Tuesday.
Tamer Ramadan, speaking at the regular UN news conference in Geneva, said the death toll was still uncertain.
“At the moment we do not have definitive figures” on the total number of dead, he stated, stressing that the number of missing people is around ten thousand.
Source: TSF
