A joint Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange (DREE) on the post earthquake disaster management preparation was held on Tuesday in the capital visualizing that a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the country.
The Disaster Management and Relief Ministry along with Armed Forces Division and United States Army Pacific (USARPAC), the army component unit of the United States Pacific Command which performs missions in the Southeast Asia including Bangladesh, organized the exercise at city’s Dupkhola and Uttara, said an ISPR release.
The joint exercise includes search and rescue, medical evacuation, logistics movement, aeronautical evacuation, debris management, dead body management, set up of temporary camp for the victims and relief assistance were carried out after visualizing that a severe 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the country.
Besides the members of the Armed Forces Division, about 1,000 representatives from 100 organizations both in home and abroad participated in the exercise.
Representatives from USA, UK, Japan, China, Myanmar, Maldives, Sri Lanka Nepal and India were also participated in it.
