The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria climbed above 35,000 on Monday, with search and rescue teams starting to wind down their work.
Officials and medics said 31,643 people had died in Turkey and 3,581 in Syria from last Monday’s 7.8-magnitude tremor, bringing the confirmed total to 35,224.
Researchers claim that at the the end of the rescue exercise about 200,000 people will still be missing as they would be deep beneath the rubbles of collasped buildings.
