RA Ministry of Emergency Situations will send 50-member rescue squad to Haiti to render assistance in prevention of disastrous earthquake consequences, the Head of Ministry’s press service Nikolay Grigoryan told NEWS.am.

According to Grigoryan, the rescuers will head to Moscow and thereafter to Haiti.

January 12, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti followed by 5.9 and 5.5 aftershocks. According to foreign press, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN that the quake death toll might reach 100 000 people. Nearly all houses, schools and hospitals, as well as parliament building were collapsed in the capital Port-au-Princ. The day before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon informed about death of 16 UN officials, whereas 150 others are missing.

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