We are not abandoning the search until the last living person or the last corpse is retrieved.
We remain hopeful that there are living people among the missing that we can rescue. As we clear the beams we'll send dogs into the rubble to search for them.
As soon as it is possible, we will continue to work with dogs and helpers into the area to find the people who are still in the wreckage. We will continue the search until we have rescued or recovered all the missing.
We will keep looking until we find the very last person. But the chances of rescuing someone are of course getting lower the longer the search goes on.
The chance to save someone naturally becomes smaller the longer the search lasts.