“I’ve lost count of the bodies we’ve buried since Monday,” Güneş said. “We built an extension to the cemetery. There are still people under the debris. We will bury those ones too once they are recovered. We are burying the bodies even late at night with the help of citizens who come to help us.”
In Kahramanmaraş, emergency workers combed the wreckage, frequently uncovering only some body parts. One emergency worker described how she had tried to identify a severed arm, showing it to bereaved families in the hope of using the color of the remaining nail polish to identify the deceased.
