70 countries make offers of help
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March 15, 2011, Tuesday
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RESCUE workers from more than a dozen countries were searching ravaged northeastern coastal cities yesterday for survivors of the massive earthquake and tsunami, as an international effort to help Japan cope with its multiple disasters gathered pace.
Some 70 countries have offered assistance in an outpouring of solidarity with Japan, with help coming from allies like America and even from the Afghan city of Kandahar.
"We have offered our Japanese friends whatever assistance is needed, as America will stand with Japan as they recover and rebuild," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
He said two US urban search and rescue teams, with 144 staff and 12 dogs, had begun work at first light yesterday looking for people trapped in the rubble in buildings flattened by the tsunami that followed Friday's quake.
A 15-member Chinese rescue team was also at work in the main quake zone.
South Korea said a 102-member rescue team left for Japan yesterday aboard three air force C-130 planes. An advance team of five South Korean rescue workers and two search dogs have been in Japan since Saturday.
Indonesia, hit by a huge earthquake and tsunami in 2004 that killed more than 165,000 in Sumatra and more than 225,000 around the Indian Ocean, said it was committed to send aid to Japan and was awaiting the go-ahead from Tokyo.
"We are ready to help, and we have offered them. We are discussing what Japan needs now and ways to send it, but our aid, including medical and relief team are at the ready," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Kusuma Habir.
The US is also sharing its expertise in dealing with Japan's nuclear emergency.
Carney said a US disaster response team sent to Tokyo included "people with nuclear expertise from the Departments of Energy and Health and Human Services as well the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
At least a dozen countries have now deployed rescue teams the United Nations said, but conditions in the worst-hit areas remained extremely difficult.
Some 70 countries have offered assistance in an outpouring of solidarity with Japan, with help coming from allies like America and even from the Afghan city of Kandahar.
"We have offered our Japanese friends whatever assistance is needed, as America will stand with Japan as they recover and rebuild," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
He said two US urban search and rescue teams, with 144 staff and 12 dogs, had begun work at first light yesterday looking for people trapped in the rubble in buildings flattened by the tsunami that followed Friday's quake.
A 15-member Chinese rescue team was also at work in the main quake zone.
South Korea said a 102-member rescue team left for Japan yesterday aboard three air force C-130 planes. An advance team of five South Korean rescue workers and two search dogs have been in Japan since Saturday.
Indonesia, hit by a huge earthquake and tsunami in 2004 that killed more than 165,000 in Sumatra and more than 225,000 around the Indian Ocean, said it was committed to send aid to Japan and was awaiting the go-ahead from Tokyo.
"We are ready to help, and we have offered them. We are discussing what Japan needs now and ways to send it, but our aid, including medical and relief team are at the ready," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Kusuma Habir.
The US is also sharing its expertise in dealing with Japan's nuclear emergency.
Carney said a US disaster response team sent to Tokyo included "people with nuclear expertise from the Departments of Energy and Health and Human Services as well the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
At least a dozen countries have now deployed rescue teams the United Nations said, but conditions in the worst-hit areas remained extremely difficult.
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