KAHRAMANMARAS, Türkiye: Tuba Yolcu is desperate for news of her missing aunt and scours a sports hall where victims of a powerful earthquake that hit her hometown in Turkey lie in body bags. 'W
"We hear will no longer keep the bodies waiting after a certain period of time, they say they will take them and bury them," she said.Monday's 7.8-magnitude tremor struck Kahramanmaras in the country's southeast, unleashing catastrophe in the region and Syria, killing at least 28,000 people.
"Every unidentified body will eventually be returned to their family," a prosecutor said, trying to soothe the families.Anguished families flock to sports halls, hospital morgues or cemeteries where bodies are piling up. "We show the faces to their immediate relatives," a crime scene investigator in a hazmat suit told AFP at a large grave outside the city."If the identity is unknown, we take fingerprints and tooth samples and compare them with their relatives," said the investigator, who carries a camera around his neck.Officials are racing to identify the quake victims and bury them in large graves.
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