MADRID, Spain -- Spain on Sunday sent a plane with 56 rescuers and four search dogs to quake-hit Morocco after it received a formal request for help from Rabat, the defence ministry said.
An A400 military plane took off from a base in the northeastern city of Zaragoza with the team bound for Marrakesh to"help in the search and rescue of survivors of the devastating earthquake suffered in our neighbouring country," the ministry said in a post on X, formerly called Twitter.
A UME unit was sent to Turkey in February following a devastating earthquake and helped rescue six people, including a mother and two children, according to Spain's defence ministry. Earlier on Sunday Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Madrid would send aid to Morocco after receiving a formal request.
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