Countries offer support from physicists to sniffer dogs

AS FOREIGN rescue workers combed debris to locate victims of Japan’s quake and tsunami, countries offered further aid from field hospitals to atomic physicists to address an unfolding nuclear crisis.

Fire-fighters, sniffer dogs, clothing and food have been proposed in an outpouring of solidarity with Japan, with offers pouring in from nearly 70 countries, UN officials said.

Even the poor southern Afghan city of Kandahar announced it was donating $50,000 (€36,000) to the “brothers and sisters” of Japan.