As part of India's commitment to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations, a specialised rescue team from the 50 (I) Para Brigade was swiftly deployed to Myanmar under Operation Brahma on Saturday after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the country on Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed that an Israeli professional rescue and aid team be sent to Thailand to help with the aftermath of the earthquake there.
Thai rescue teams used robotic mules on Saturday in front of JJ Mall Chatuchak, Thailand, where an under-construction building collapsed after an earthquake of 7.7 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Sagaing, Myanmar, yesterday.
He said that disaster relief material, humanitarian assistance, and search and rescue teams are being expeditiously dispatched to the affected areas as part of Operation Brahma.
Rescue teams are continuing their search operations to ensure that no one else is trapped inside the tunnel, which collapsed on February 22, entrapping eight workers.
Rescue teams working at the SLBC Tunnel have discovered another body inside the tunnel in the early hours of Tuesday. The body is stuck in a difficult position, and the teams are currently making efforts to carefully retrieve it.
"It was reported that workers were trapped after the roof of an under-construction building collapsed. Upon receiving information, rescue teams from the administration and police reached the spot immediately and started a rescue operation," Jhabua SP Padma Vilochan Shukla said, adding that o
According to Vikram Bansode, Senior Police Inspector in Dehu Road Police Station, Pimpri-Chinchwad, they received information that in Kinhai village's Indrayani River, 4-5 boys had come for swimming, and three of the boys drowned.
The rescue teams traced the body of a worker from the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel in Nagarkurnool which collapsed on February 22 entrapping eight workers.
Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Jitendra Jorwal said that rescue teams had to remove a substantial amount of debris, carefully using manual equipment to reach the trapped worker.