The Minister of National Education Nazım Çavuşoğlu who spoke to the BRT main news bulletin over the phone on Thursday evening said that the work on the wreckage of Adıyaman İsias Hotel, where the Gazimağusa Türk Maarif College athletes are located, will be completed in two days.

He noted that the work continued uninterrupted and that all teams were working 24 hours a day.

“There is an extraordinary work” Çavuşoğlu said and added that the work continues with 7 excavators and other construction equipment.

Explaining that the crew and construction equipment which set off from the Gazimağusa Port to the İskenderun Port with a ship will be involved in the works around Antakya, Minister Çavuşoğlu said “we do not need a vehicle in Adıyaman.”

Meanwhile, speaking to BRT on Friday morning, Minister Çavuşoğlu noted that a total of 54 people have been removed from the wreckage at Adıyaman İsias Hotel so far.

Noting that the work continues uninterruptedly, he said that bodies removed from the rubble are identified by DNA testing in accordance with international procedure, although they are identified by families.