As joy greeted the small handful of survivors still being pulled from the rubble, death overwhelmed most search operations.
"It's same like in Ukraine because you have destroyed buildings, so many bodies. We feel this problem in Turkey, that's why we came from Ukraine to this place," he said.
So far, the U.S. Air Force had delivered more than 5,700 tons of life-saving equipment and disaster aid, the U.S. Agency for International Development said Sunday.
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