Eight were killed inside there. Behind this pink-painted building, the hotel Koruk is now just a pile of rubble. So far six corpses have been found. The bodies of a young mother and her two small sons can be seen on what is left of her top-floor apartment, but locals fear that what remains of the building will collapse if they attempt to reach them. In the shade of the central square, families camp out between the few trees that were not uprooted.
Volunteers dole out tomatoes, peppers and bread sent from neighbouring towns.
We were a rich town and now we are relying on handouts. There are so many corpses to bury that local volunteers were digging up a field beside a road last night to serve as the town's new graveyard. At the rate they were pulling out bodies, it will not be long before this is filled. Quake death toll passes 7,000 The official death toll reached 7,085 last night, with 33,022 injured.