Turkey rescuers look for survivors at 4 buildings

[October 29, 2011]  ERCIS, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish rescue teams are still looking for survivors at four collapsed buildings six days after a powerful earthquake.

Authorities on Saturday said the death toll in the 7.2-magnitude earthquake is now 582. They said 455 of them died in the hardest-hit city of Ercis in eastern Turkey.

Searchers on Saturday pulled the body of a 27-year-old teacher from a crumbled building and continued drilling through the wreckage in search of two other missing people.

A mother was waiting outside wailing for her son, another teacher, believed to be trapped inside, as hopes of finding more survivors were dimming.

[Associated Press]

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