Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and the Relief of Natural Disasters delivers humanitarian assistance to the island of Dominica. The press service of extraordinary department reports about it .
In the night of December 14 of the current year according to inquiry of Dominica and in pursuance of an order of Government of the Russian Federation the humanitarian assistance was directed toon the island of Dominica from Novorossiysk. Onboard a sea vessel there are more than 174 tons of freight which part products food, building materials, mobile power plants and tents are.
tountil the end of a month to Dominica it will be sent even more than 61 tons of humanitarian assistance.
we Will remindthat in September of the current year the island state Dominica underwent destructive impact of the hurricane "Maria" which broke roofs from houses and left strong destructions of buildings in its territory. Because of a gale trees and the power lines were tumbled down, many people remained without the electric power. Pouring rains led to floods.
Dominica — the state on the island of the same name from group Small Antilles (Navetrennykh) of islands in the Caribbean Sea. To the northwest from Dominica Region of Guadeloupe, is located to the southeast — Region of Martinique. On the island the territory of 754 km ² live 73 600 inhabitants (an assessment of 2015). The capital is Roseau.