SDF team leaves for quake-hit India to erect tents

NARITA, Japan - Members of a Japanese Self-Defense Forces team on Feb. 5 load relief goods at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, for survivors of last month's powerful earthquake in northwestern India. The 89-member team is expected to set up 450 tents and hand over about 4,500 blankets. The team, which departed Japan later in the day aboard six C-130 cargo planes and a private plane, will arrive in the worst-hit area of Bhuj as early as Tuesday via Delhi.

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