A specialist British disaster rescue organisation, the International Rescue Corps, offered to send a team but were refused visas (with the reasoning that "enough rescue crews had already arrived at the disaster site"), and a Swiss offer of additional assistance was also turned down.
一个名为国际救援队（International Rescue Corps）的英国灾难救援专家组织提出派遣一队救援队，但被拒绝签证，理由是“受灾地区已经有了足够的救援人员抵达”。