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More than 300 Indians evacuated from the flood and landslide-hit Sri Lanka connected Indian Air Force (IAF) craft landed successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Sunday night, adjacent arsenic IAF continues to assistance section agencies successful the land federation successful rescue and alleviation operations.
IAF’s IL-76 and C-130 J heavy-lift carriers, operating from Colombo, brought implicit 200 Indians by 7.30 p.m. connected Sunday. Another C-130 J was expected by 11 p.m. with 135 much radical connected board.
Under Operation Sagar Bandhu, IAF has activated its Southern Air Command, for deploying Mi-17 V5 medium-lift helicopters and elements of Garud peculiar force, to Colombo. Operating successful adjacent coordination with Sri Lankan authorities, the helicopters flew missions for rescuing stranded and injured civilians crossed flooded and landslide affected areas, isolated from deploying Sri Lankan Army unit to the affected areas.
Conducting aggregate missions, IAF helicopters airlifted 57 Sri Lankan Army unit from Diyathalawa Army Camp and Colombo to Kotmale, a landslide-affected and cut-off country successful cardinal Sri Lanka.
“A hybrid ngo was undertaken by the IAF, wherein Garud Commandos were dropped adjacent stranded civilians and past guided to pre-identified landing sites, wherever they were picked up by the chopper crew. A full of 55 civilians, which included Indians, overseas nationals and Sri Lankan survivors were successfully evacuated to Colombo. The survivors included six casualties/patients and 4 infants,” a connection said.
The IAF said it remains afloat committed to sustaining alleviation operations and volition proceed to supply enactment arsenic required to assistance the radical of Sri Lanka successful their betterment efforts.
“The IAF continues to widen captious Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) enactment to the radical of Sri Lanka arsenic portion of Operation Sagar Bandhu, pursuing the terrible humanitarian interaction caused by caller earthy calamities successful the region,” a defence spokesperson said.
