Britain sends two warships to aid Hurricane Irma victims

Britain is sending two military vessels to assist victims of Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean and is assigning £12 million ($15.7 million, 13 million euros) in aid, the government said Thursday.Hurricane Irma -- one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record -- has hit the Caribbean with deadly and turned the tropical islands of Barbuda and St Martin into mountains of rubble.The British fleet auxiliary boat Mounts Bay carrying 40 Royal Marines was already in the region and was expected