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Jason Beaubien

Turkey buries its earthquake dead in small cemeteries and mass graves

A funeral ceremony is performed at a mass grave site in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, where thousands of bodies from the earthquake are already buried and more graves are still being dug. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

PAZARCIK, Turkey — With so many people killed suddenly in last week's earthquake, Turkey faces a huge logistical challenge of burying tens of thousands of people over a span of just a few days.

Ali Gul has lost five family members to the Feb. 6 earthquake. He's buried two of them in the southeastern town of Pazarcik. Three more are presumed dead in the rubble of their collapsed apartment buildings.

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