Foreign and Military Affairs
China's rescue team only one working 24-hrs
By Xie Jingwei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-01-15 16:35
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 Members of the Chinese rescue team for Haiti try to find earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince on January 14, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua] Slide: Chinese rescue team on Haiti front line |
Among all the rescue teams, China’s National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team is the only one that is operating at night, according to a CCTV report today.
China’s rescue team insists on working around-the-clock since it would be very difficult to save more lives after the prime time for rescue, said the team leader Huang Jianfa, adding that all the Chinese rescuers didn’t eating anything until they worked consecutively for 15 hours.
Twelve foreign rescue teams have arrived in the quake-devastated country and six others are on their way up to now, said the report.
China’s 60-strong team arrived at the Port-au-Prince International Airport before the dawn on Thursday local time to conduct a 15-day rescue mission.
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti Tuesday, collapsing a hospital and damaging buildings in its capital city of Port-au-Prince, and may have claimed 50,000 lives, according to the international Red Cross estimation.
