May god shower blessings upon India and its leadership: Myanmar locals hail Operation Brahma

Mandalay: Operation Brahma by India is operating at full tilt aimed towards providing rescue and relief to Myanmar, which was struck by a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake. The locals have hailed India’s aid and support in this time of distress.

A Myanmar local, Hussain spoke to ANI and expressed thanks for the Indian efforts underway in Myanmar. He said, “We got a great sense of relief when you came. You (Indians) are very hardworking people. We are very happy and at peace. We have benefited a lot from the arrival of NDRF. May god shower blessings upon India and its leadership”.

NDRF crew member Kavita Singh spoke to ANI. She said, “There is no possibility for people being alive because few days have passed, hot weather. We have only retrieved dead bodies”.

She highlighted the conviction of NDRF and told ANI that despite the infrastructural damage difficulties, the NDRF team is working after undertaking risk because they are committed towards the operation.

Singh also said that the NDRF team has recieved a lot of support from the locals. She shared an incident wherein a family came to the NDRF team and expressed relief and hope on the team’s efforts for the rescue operations. “We are very proud and thankful that you have come to help us”, the locals told them.

NRDF crew member Manju Bhati said that a team of 57 members of NDRF has arrived in Myanmar. She said they have been allotted 13 locations to work upon and that NDRF. “It is very difficult for us to take out the dead bodies. It is also very hot, so it is very difficult for anyone to be alive... In such a small street, neither excavators nor cranes, nothing can be operated... Everyone is in God’s hands now.”

In response to the earthquake that struck Myanmar an NDRF team and essential relief supplies have been deployed to support rescue efforts. “An Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) Team of 80 skilled Rescuers from 8th Battalion NDRF, Ghaziabad, along with four trained canines, was airlifted in two sorties by the Indian Air Force (IAF) C-130 Hercules Aircraft”, the NDRF said in a statement on Tuesday. (ANI)

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