SLOVENIA OFFERS RESCUE HELP IN CRO EARTHQUAKE-STRUCK AREA

ZAGREB, Sept 6 (Hina) - After receiving the news on an earthquake in the southern Croatian Dubrovnik area, the Slovenian Administration for Protection and Rescuing offered to help in rescuing people and property, the public relations office of the Croatian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Friday. In a phone call to the head of the Croatian Civil Protection Department, Damir Cemerin, the manager of the Slovenian Administration for Protection and Rescuing, Bojan Usenicnik, offered help in the emergency rescue of people and property and special rescue teams with dogs for the search of trapped persons. Cemerin expressed gratitude for the help offer, currently estimated as unnecessary, and told Usenicnik that there were no totally destroyed buildings or trapped persons in the earthquake- struck area. Usenicnik pointed out that the help offer remained valid, the statement concluded. (hina) ha 061828 MET sep 96