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US Marines team on fact finding mission
Daily Mirror Friday. Saturday, July 28,2007 COLOMBO:

A US Marines team is now in the east to carry out a fact-finding mission in preparation for an upcoming visit by high level US military medics as part of a humanitarian assistance programme. “A high-level medical team will be here in September for one week to conduct a series of medical assistance programmes for the eastern people, especially in the newly captured areas,” a senior defence official told the Daily Mirror Friday.He said this humanitarian assistance is to be given to eastern people in consultation with the Army, Navy and the Air Force. “Medical camps would be set up in several areas including Sampur and Vakarai,” the official said.The visiting four-member medical team from the US Marines led by a Colonel is now in Trincomalee monitoring the area to set up medical camps and find out other requirements for the scheduled programme, the official said.Soon after the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 35,000 people and displaced tens of thousands, Marines from the United States conducted several humanitarian assistance programmes here.Some 1600 US Marines along with ships and helicopters were among troops from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Greece, India, Italy and Pakistan here for tsunami relief operations in the country.