New Delhi, March 29 -- Extending a big helping hand to quake-hit neighbour Myanmar, India today launched Operation Brahma, sending essential relief materials and also sent an 80-member search and rescue team along with four canines, and is dispatching a mobile hospital equipped with surgical facilities along with specialists and paramedics.
A day after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake devastated Myanmar, especially Mandalay, India launched Operation Brahma, which MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said also denoted reconstruction.
An Indian Air Force plane left at 3 am early on Saturday with 15 tonnes of relief material, including tents, tarpaulin sheets, essential medicines, food stuffs like biscuits and noodles and hygiene kits.
The IAF plane ...