Turkey quake toll nears 600
The death toll from eastern Turkey's devastating earthquake rose to 596 yesterday while bulldozers were replacing sniffer dogs as search efforts wound down.
More than 4,150 people were injured in the 7.2 magnitude quake that jolted the eastern Van province near the Iranian border a week ago, the prime ministry's emergency unit said in a statement on its website.
Some 231 people have been pulled out alive from the rubble, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said when announcing the previous toll of 582.
Turkey has accepted help from dozens of countries, including Israel and Armenia, both states with which it has frosty relations. The United States was the latest country to offer help.
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