A 116-strong Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) team has begun to assist the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and local authorities with rescue operations and providing humanitarian aid to victims of the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand since Wednesday morning.
Singapore also dispatched a 55-member Singapore Civil Defence Force urban search and rescue team and an SAF command team to assist in the disaster relief efforts early Wednesday morning.
The Singapore contingent departed from Paya Lebar Air Base in two RSAF C-130s and one KC-135 military aircraft.
The KC-135 aircraft arrived in Christchurch on Wednesday afternoon and will be evacuating civilians out of the earthquake zone to Auckland, New Zealand.
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