The expansion of a burial ground in Turkey signals the overwhelming task to come as bodies are being recovered hourly from the husks of collapsed buildings. More than 21,000 people have died in the staggering toll the quakes have taken on Turkey and Syria.
KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey — Melih Kazanci had a simple wish as he prepared to bury his in-laws, who were crushed in the earthquakes, a gesture that might leaven some of the grief. He wanted them to rest in the earth together, side by side.
Many of those who perished in the flattened apartment blocks in Kahramanmaras, including along the central Trabzon Boulevard, were sent to the morgue at a local university hospital, which has received at least 1,500 bodies since Monday, according to Durdu Mehmet Okutucu, the hospital’s deputy director. Unidentified bodies were being stored in refrigerated trucks, he added.
Later that day, the funerals in the Kahramanmaras cemetery were carried out every few minutes, as yellow backhoes dug new rows of graves.There appeared to be 500 or so wooden planks that served as headstones along the rows. Dozens more bodies wrapped in blankets or body bags sat in another area of the cemetery, awaiting inspection by the authorities before burial permission was granted.
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