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Death toll from Turkey earthquake nears 600

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The death toll from Turkey’s powerful earthquake was nearing 600 on Sunday as hopes faded of finding any more survivors in the rubble.

At least 596 people were killed and more than 4,150 injured in the magnitude 7.2 quake that rocked Turkey’s eastern Van province, near the Iranian border, a week ago, Turkish authorities said.

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The last person dug out alive was a 13-year-old boy who was rescued Friday.

PHOTOS: Powerful earthquake strikes Turkey

Workers using bulldozers and excavators began clearing away the debris from collapsed buildings on Sunday as search-and-rescue efforts wound down, news agencies reported.

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Aftershocks continued to cause panic in the devastated quake zone, where thousands of survivors are sleeping in tents in the bitter cold, rain and snow, the Associated Press said.

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Alexandra Zavis

Alexandra Zavis is a former writer and editor on the Los Angeles Times’ Foreign Desk who has reported from more than 40 countries. She spent a decade with the Associated Press, covering Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other war-torn places. After joining The Times in 2006, she has served as a Baghdad correspondent and as a California reporter covering poverty and veterans issues. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs and was part of teams of reporters awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for foreign correspondence and APME’s International Perspective Award. She is a graduate of Oxford University and City University in London.

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