A 17-member team of Bangladesh Air Force left for Syria on Friday to join the relief distribution operation in the quake-hit nation.
The government sent rapid humanitarian assistance to Syria through a C-130J transport aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
The aircraft left Dhaka with under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs taking 11 tons of relief items that include required number of tents, blankets and dry food to provide necessary support in Syria.
Group Captain Jamil Uddin Ahmed of Bangladesh Air Force will act as a mission commander of the said ferry flight.
ISPRThe mission will be conducted under the overall guidance of Chief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan.
After providing necessary support, the C-130J aircraft will return to Bangladesh on Monday.
Meanwhile, a 46-member rescue team led by Bangladesh Army joined the post-earthquake rescue operations and assistance in Turkey on Friday.
Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless after the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria as the death toll passed 22,000 on Friday.
Rescuers in Turkey and Syria dug with their bare hands have been hunting for survivors among the rubble of thousands of buildings felled in a series of violent earthquakes - already Turkey's deadliest since 1999 - that hit in the early hours of Monday.
