Vietnamese military rescuers find three more victims

The delegation was divided into two teams. The first one, led by Major General Pham Van Ty, Deputy Director of the Search and Rescue Department under the General Staff and Deputy Chief of the Standing Office of the National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response, and Search and Rescue, continued the search for victims in Haci Omer Alpagot commune, in Antakya – the capital of Hatay province.

The first rescue team of Vietnam continues the search in Haci Omer Alpagot commune.

Major General Pham Van Ty directs the team.

Service dogs support the rescuers in searching for the victims.

Vietnamese engineers active in the search

Vietnamese troops and service dogs exert utmost efforts to find the victims.

The second one, led by Colonel Nguyen Duy Minh, Head of the U.S.-Australia-Africa Division under the Department of Foreign Relations under the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, teamed with Bahrain’s rescue team to search at the residential area on Harapasi street, in Antakya. The Bahrain side asked the Vietnamese military rescue force for coordination because they did not have rescue equipment for engineers and service dogs.

The second team of Vietnam joins hands with Bahrain rescue team in the SAR operations.

Searching for victims in the rubble

Each SAR team of Vietnam includes engineers, service dogs, and medical staff.

Vietnamese and Bahrain rescuers search for the victims.

Both Vietnamese SAR teams included engineers, service dogs, and medical staff.

During the day, both teams scanned eight positions of which three had victims.

The first rescue team located two dead victims and handed over them to the local heavy rescue force. The second one and Bahrain team entered the deepest and hardest place of the assigned area, where they positioned one victim and informed the victim’s family.

Reported by Van Hieu from Hatay, Turkey

Translated by Mai Huong