Jordanian army deploys three aircrafts to help extinguish fires in Cyprus

2023-08-06 04:48:17

(MENAFN) Jordan's army has deployed three aircrafts to help extinguish fires in Cyprus, the formal Jordanian press agency said.

More than four people were murdered in fires on the island in July. On Friday, regional broadcasts announced that smoke had covered Limassol as fires erupted in the forested Alassa district north-west of the town.

The fires scorched across a zone of three square kilometres and pushed 100 citizens to leave their houses, a Cyprus newspaper reported.

Two Super Pumas as well as one MI26 belonging the Jordanian Air Force have reached to Cyprus and joined "in the efforts extinguish the fires", the Jordanian agency reported.

Cypriot broadcasts said that the aircrafts were deployed to the Andreas Papandreou airbase, around 40km west of Limassol.

The Jordanian army, which is mostly trained by the United States, has enhanced its natural disaster response in the past ten years, with its forces part of several United Nations mediation and observing missions.

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