The death toll in Turkey has risen to 9,057 according to Erdogan – The death toll in Syria has reached 2,662 – Six people, including a child, have been rescued alive in Turkey 60 hours after the earthquake
There is no end to the tragedy in Turkey and Syria with the death toll from the deadly earthquake constantly rising. Speaking in Hatay province, near the epicenter of the two earthquakes, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the number of confirmed dead in Turkey had risen to 9,057, as Reuters points out.
Meanwhile, Syrian officials and a rescue team in rebel-held northwest Syria said the death toll there had risen to 2,662, bringing the total toll to 11,719.
The rescuers are fighting against time
Rescuers continue to search the wreckage for survivors. According to CNN Turk six people, including a child, were pulled out alive from the rubble 60 hours after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
The members of the Greek rescue teams tirelessly continue their work. Earlier, they spotted one more person alive and it is now a matter of time before they pull him out of the rubble in Hatay. It is about a 20-year-old girl, Irene, who is trapped under a slab and the rescuers of EMAK and EKAV have managed to reach her.
Also earlier today, rescuers in Syria managed to pull the father, son and daughter alive two days after the devastating earthquake.
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Survivors search for their dead relatives in parking lots and fields
At the same time, residents in the earthquake-stricken areas of Turkey are going to stadiums and parking lots in order to identify their own people who did not make it and were pulled dead by rescue crews from the debris.
The bodies of dozens of citizens are wrapped in blankets, tarpaulins and garbage bags and are waiting for someone familiar to identify them. More than 100 bodies have been piled up in the parking lot of the Hatay hospital near the city of Antakya (Antioch) in southern Turkey.
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At the same time, in the city of Kahramanmaras, near the epicenter of the earthquake, another 100 bodies were placed in a field, where residents went for identification.
Some of the dead had tags with their personal information, others did not. Relatives who locate one of their own obtain a death certificate and burial permit from a prosecutor present at the scene and then transport the dead in their own vehicles.
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