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Five Air Force planes carrying rescue and relief material land in Leh | Rescue and relief operations at Leh received a major boost today with arrival of five plane loads of men and material augmented by the Armed Forces.
Two Ilyushin- 76 and three Antonov-32 aircraft of Indian Air Force landed at the
cleaned- up Leh Airport by noon with 125 rescue and relief personnel of NDRF,
medicines, generators, tents, portable x-ray machines and emergency rescue kits
etc. Two teams from Health and Family Welfare Ministry consisting of specialist
doctors and surgeons with five tons of medicines from Delhi also reached Leh.
As of today, 110 bodies have been recovered from mudslides and flood waters by
the rescue teams. Thirty-three columns of Army personnel along with soldiers of
Indo-Tibetan Border Police have been deployed in the affected areas to carry out
relief and rescue operations. So far 291 injured civilians and tourists have been
admitted to the military hospital at Leh and 94 persons discharged after treatment.
As a special gesture, the Indian Air Force has agreed to carry bodies of foreign
tourists and non-locals to Delhi by air if no civilian flights are available from
Leh. The tri- service Disaster Management Coordination Group which met at South
Block this morning further reviewed the progress in rescue and relief operations
and decided to earmark special service aircraft to carry 19 VSATs and a set of
other equipment of BSNL to Leh so that mobile and telecom connectivity could be
restored at Leh and its adjoining areas at the earliest. Two more MI-17 Helicopters
are scheduled to join in the rescure operations at Leh later in the day. The Chief
Controller (Research and Development) DRDO, Dr W. Selvamurthy, along with a team
of experts also arrived in Leh to look at ways to prevent further damage to the
town in the event of more heavy rains there. |
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