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Amid rows of bodies, Turks check for relatives one by one after earthquake

Amid rows of bodies, Turks check for relatives one by one after earthquake

TURKS stepped over hundreds of bodies in stadiums and parking lots, carefully lifting blankets from their faces to try to identify dead relatives after a once-in-a-generation earthquake devastated the region. Nada, a Syrian woman, and her Turkish husband asked a staff member how best to find their niece and aunt among the more than 100 bodies lined up in the parking lot of the Hatay Research Hospital near the southern city of Antakya. "Check one by one," they were told. "My wife doesn't speak Turkish, and I can't see very well," said the husband, who did not give a name. "We have…
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