(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-05-17 15:24

QINGCHUAN, Sichuan -- The second group of 29 Japanese earthquake rescuers joined their colleagues working in China Saturday morning and they left quake-hit Qingchuan County for Beichuan, another worst-hit county in Sichuan Province to continue rescue operations.

Members of the Japanese rescue team mourn for a victim at Qiaozhuang Town of Qingchuan County in the quake-stricken southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 17, 2008. Japanese earthquake rescuers found two corpses in a collapsed six-floor building in Qiaozhuang at 7:25 am after 16 hours rescue operation. [Xinhua]

The first group of 31 well-equipped Japanese rescuers arrived at Qingchuan Friday afternoon.

With the help of life search and location device, grabs and sinkers, they dug out the corpses of two victims, Song Aimei and her 70-day-old baby, from the debris of a dormitory after 16 hours of work till Saturday morning.

The Japanese professional rescuers had found no life sign in the building which belonged to the Qingchuan County Hospital of Chinese Traditional Medicine, according to a Xinhua reporter who witnessed the rescue work.

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