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First RAF Chinook Leaves For Nepal
The first of three RAF Chinooks has left the UK to help with the aid effort in Nepal.
About 100 personnel from Joint Helicopter Command have been deployed to get the aircraft prepared and delivered.
It departed RAF Brize Norton after being loaded onto an Antonov transport aircraft, bound for the relief mission in the earthquake-hit country.
The Brigade of Gurkhas, meanwhile, has been working to provide safe drinking water for people affected by the disaster.
Gurkha engineers spent the night building a water purification system for people in the Kathmandu region.
Force TV's Emma Nelson has taken a look at the Chinook's capabilities.
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