ANTAKYA and ISTANBUL, Turkey — Rescue workers in Turkey and Syria spent a third day of desperate recovery operations on Wednesday as the death toll from this week's massive earthquake reached a grim milestone.
Teams of workers were still trying to find more survivors from the early Monday morning quake as the death toll surpassed 15,000, The Associated Press reported. By late Wednesday, Turkey's government reported 12,391 deaths in the country from the quake. In Syria, the death toll reached 2,902.
