India, April 1 -- India on Tuesday despatched more than 400 tonnes of relief material on a warship for earthquake-hit Myanmar even as Indian search and rescue teams fanned out in some of the worst-affected areas to look for survivors.

Operation Brahma mounted by the Indian government is emerging as the biggest response by a foreign country to help Myanmar following Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake that has killed more than 2,000 people and injured nearly 4,000 others.

A field hospital manned by experts from the Indian Army is operational at the old airport in Mandalay, the region hit hardest by the quake. The 80-member search and rescue team from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is combing through rubble at more than a dozen...