New Delhi: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) recovered seven bodies from the earthquake from the earthquake, following the mission of Indian rescuers to initiate relief and rescue operations in about 12 buildings.
Myanmar authorities have allocated various departments to different foreign rescue agencies, which have been taken away by the devastating 7.7-magnitude highland shaken states on Friday, up to 1,700 times until now.
The NDRF was asked to work in 13 buildings in District D, Mandalay, the country’s second largest urban area, about 65 kilometers from the capital Naypitaw Airport.
NDRF personnel have retrieved at least seven bodies so far, and they landed in the country on Saturday as part of India’s humanitarian “Action Brahma” to help its neighbors with whom they share a 1,643-kilometer international border.
80 Indian federal rescue workers are also working at the Uhla Thein monastery, with 170 monks allegedly stuck. Sources said the NDRF recovered three of three (out of seven) from this location.
The squad was equipped with plasma cutters, hammers and other equipment used to search under collapsed structures, and deployed four dogs to look for signs of life that looked “very desolate”.
Sources say the temperature in Myanmar is high, so the purpose of the NDRF and other local and foreign rescue teams is to quickly retrieve the body so that the epidemic does not break out of decay.
Photos shared by the Indian Embassy in Yangon show Indian rescue workers wearing orange combat uniforms through heavy boards.
Myanmar government spokesman Maj Gen Zaw Min Tun told State MRTV that the death toll has climbed to 1,700, with 3,400 injured and more than 300 missing, according to the Associated Press news report.
