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

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.

(Xinhua News Agency May 17, 2008)