Turkey's post-earthquake response has entered a new, grim and likely much angrier phase, where finding and burying the dead is the priority.
A few blocks away, at the city's freshly expanded cemetery, there is an almost assembly-line efficiency to the job. Several white tents with gurneys inside are tended by masked volunteers in white hazmat suits and long aprons.
We were allowed, however, to walk through the cemetery, where we saw a newly prepared field, filled with countless fresh graves and a backhoe piling dirt over the newly buried.By the awful standards of last Monday's twin earthquakes in southern Turkey and northern Syria, Osmaniye escaped the kind of catastrophic damage that virtually annihilated such cities as Antakya and Kahramanmaras.A backhoe is used to dig mass graves for earthquake victims.
People are shown outside rows of tents at a humanitarian centre in Osmaniye on Saturday. The facility can hold 4,000 people at a time, and there are 11 such camps in the city, which had a pre-quake population of 250,000. However, in other parts of the earthquake zone that CBC News visited over the past week, it's hard to imagine a rebuilding effort beginning soon, if ever.In Antakya, the capital of Hatay province near the border with Syria, it appeared as if almost every building in the city suffered significant damage — and practically every structure in the city centre was either unlivable or had collapsed completely.
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