Latest Turkey Quake Toll at 705 and Rising
A day after the search for survivors was called off, bulldozers moved in Saturday to cart away the wreckage of an earthquake that killed at least 705 people in Turkey.
The death toll from the Nov. 12 quake increased by almost 100 since Friday and was expected to rise further as more bodies are reached from within the piles of shattered concrete.
“A lot of families pulled out their dead themselves and have taken them away to bury them in villages where they were born,” said Ahmet Cekic, an official in Duzce. “Those numbers will also slowly be added up.”
More than 5,000 people were injured in the 7.2-magnitude temblor.
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