A peaceful spot nestled in the trees has been turned into a factory for processing the dead. Satellite images show the speed and scale of growth at the cemetery in the village of Kapicam.
These tents form something of a reception centre for the sad procession of vehicles edging their way into the cemetery.Tents being erected at the grave site are seen in a satellite image from 11 February. Pic: Maxar
Groups of volunteers and local officials waited outside each pavilion, retrieving the bodies and taking them inside. The dead were washed and wrapped in clean linen - as religious ritual requires - and placed in wooden containers which were stacked up outside. Then, they were carried off to newly-dug graves.We saw hundreds of grief-stricken relatives on the site, accompanying their loved ones as they were placed at the bottom of freshly prepared trenches.
The body of each victim is marked with a plain wooden board with a simple grave marker with the name of the individual written in black ink.In three days a large number of graves have been dug at the cemetery site. Pic: Maxar, 11 FebruaryLines of trenches with some measuring almost 100 metres have been dug at the rural site. Pic: Maxar
"I came here because my neighbours died in the rubble," said a man called Mustafa who stopped to have a word with us."Do you know where they have been buried?" I asked.Many bodies at Kapicam have not been identified. The simple wooden memorials have been given numbers, scrawled in black ink, but there is nothing else to commemorate the victims' time on earth.Much is now known about the scale of the disaster in Turkey.
But the authorities have been unable - or unwilling - to provide an estimate of the number of people still missing. Most think that number will run into the tens of thousands.
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