India has mobilised all resources to help Nepal: Parrikar

April 25, 2015 22:18

Assuring full help to Nepal in wake of the devastating earthquake, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday said all resources are being mobilised to help the Himalayan country.

He said that the Indian Air Force has been pressed into service to take National Disaster Response Force teams, doctors, clothes, medicines, water among others to Nepal, where nearly 1,500 people were killed after a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 on Richter scale struck earlier in the day.

"As directed by the prime minister, we have mobilised all resources to support Nepal. We have at present diverted three aircraft and two helicopters to carry the NDRF team, doctors, food, water and medicine among others to Nepal," Parrikar told PTI.

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