Earthquake death toll tops 33,000

On Sunday, nearly a week after one of the biggest earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, rescuers rescued more survivors from the rubble, as Turkish officials

and over building collapses.

With the prospects of finding additional survivors becoming increasingly distant, the death toll in both countries from Monday's earthquake and severe aftershocks surpassed 33,000 and appeared poised to rise further. It was Turkey's deadliest earthquake since 1939.

The quake is the world's

, with a death toll that exceeds the 31,000 killed in a quake in neighboring Iran in 2003.

It has killed 29,605 people in Turkey and around 3,500 people in Syria, where the death toll has not been updated in two days. Turkey said that approximately 80,000 people were in hospitals and more than one million were in

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