AFP ready to deploy relief contingents to Nepal

From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 27): AFP ready to deploy relief contingents to Nepal

If ordered to, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is more than willing to deploy a contingent to help quake-stricken Nepal.

"In case we are ordered by our Commander-in-Chief (President Benigno S. Aquino III), we are ready to send delegation to Nepal to help in humanitarian relief operations," AFP chief-of-staff Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang said Monday.

Catapang said that the number of the Filipino contingent is dependent on the request of the Nepalese government.

As of this posting, the number of dead in the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal last April 25 has now hit the 3,500 mark with another 5,000 reported wounded.

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