A Bangor-based charity is sending team members along with specialist search and rescue dogs to aid efforts to locate people following a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria
.More than 11,000 people have died following the earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday.Efforts are now focussed on locating those still missing and rescuing those trapped beneath rubble."This is what we train for," he said.
"We are privileged to be asked to help in the rescue of survivors and hope we can reunite families with their loved ones.Two black Labrador search dogs from the charity, Max and Delta, are heading out having been involved recently in high-profile rescue efforts following the Creeslough tragedy.
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