‘Operation Dost’: Indian team rescues six-year-old girl from rubble in Turkey

A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team deployed as part of India's Operation Dost in Turkey, where a series of catastrophic earthquakes have caused widespread earthquakes, miraculously pulled out a 6-year-old girl from the rubble of a collapsed building. devastation and loss of life.

"Stand with Türkiye in this natural disaster." India's NDRF is conducting rescue and relief operations at ground zero,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a Tweet with a video of the rescue on Thursday. The video shows the girl wrapped in a blanket with her neck firmly secured by a support device as a doctor checks her condition before being carried away on a stretcher. The rescue took place in the Beren area of ​​the Turkish city of Gaziantep, the epicenter of the massive earthquake that killed more than 19,300 people.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah appreciated the team's efforts and said he was "proud of our NDRF" in a tweet. He said India is committed to making the NDRF the world's leading disaster response unit. The NDRF is working to rescue the living victims from the debris and provide first aid to the injured before handing them over to medical authorities.The force uses chip and rock cutters to break through fallen concrete slabs and other infrastructure, and has deep radars that pick up faint sounds like a heartbeat or a person's voice, officials said.

Teams on the ground have a rapidly deployed antenna and satellite phones for communication. Seven four-wheelers and trucks, besides four canines, were sent alongside three teams that were airlifted by an Indian Air Force (IAF) C-17 heavy-lift aircraft from Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad to Adana Airport in Turkey. The Indian Army has also set up and operationalized the provision of surgical and emergency departments to provide relief to the affected people in Hatay province.