Members of the Johanniter Order (the Order of St John, based in Germany) prepare packages of medical supplies to be sent to countries battered by the devastating tidal waves, in Hamburg. The death toll from the powerful earthquake and the giant tidal waves it unleashed is expected to cross 24,000.
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