A combined rescue team from Bangladesh has started its operations in Turkey following a deadly earthquake that hit the country and its neighbouring Syria on February 6.
The team rescued a 17-year-old girl alive and recovered three bodies, according to the media cell of Fire Service and Civil Defence.
The team consisting of 34 members from the army and 12 from the fire service left Dhaka on Wednesday at 10pm and reached Adana Military Air Base on Thursday at 9:46pm.
Later, they reached Adiaman city and started search and rescue operations.
Meanwhile, rescuers pulled children from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake on Saturday as the death toll approached 24,000 and a winter freeze compounded the suffering of millions of people, many in desperate need of aid, reports AFP.
At least 870,000 people urgently needed food in the two countries after the quake, which has made up to 5.3 million people homeless in Syria alone, the UN warned.
On Friday night, the Bangladesh government dispatched a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J transport aircraft from Bangabandhu Air Base, Dhaka to Damascus, Syria to help the quake-hit survivors with relief goods and essential medicine.
