Czech USAR team in Turkey finds two people alive

The Czech Urban Search and Rescue team that has been deployed in the Turkish city of Adiyaman following Monday's earthquake found two people alive on Friday morning and managed to free them from the rubble. The two were handed over on stretchers to local paramedics. The news was announced on the Czech fire rescue corps' Twitter page.

They also reported that colleagues from another team had rescued a woman from the rubble in the early hours of the morning. She was found by one of the teams' search and rescue dogs.

The firefighters have so far also found twenty bodies, 11 of whom were children, Czech news site irozhlas.cz reports. On Thursday it was reported that they had found eight victims, four of whom were children. A further 12 were found overnight and reported early on Friday morning.

Author: Anna Fodor