Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Department of Defense (DoD) said on Friday that the U.S. military will send a team to Pakistan to figure out what help the Pentagon can give in the wake of deadly floods that have affected more than a third of the country.
Col. Joe Buccino, the command’s top spokesman, said in a statement, “CENTCOM (US Central Command) is sending an assessment team to Islamabad to find out what kind of help DoD (Department of Defense) might be able to give to USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) as part of the U.S. response to the flood crisis in Pakistan.”
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The head of CENTCOM, General Michael Kurilla, also called Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, to “express his condolences for the people of Pakistan,” the statement said.
More than 1,100 people have died because of the flooding, and at least 400 of them were children. More than 33 million people have been affected, and millions of acres of crops and hundreds of thousands of animals have been killed.
