Ten days after disaster, grief is being subsumed by anger over lax building standards

Bodies continued to be retrieved from rubble across southern Turkey on Thursday as the death toll from the earthquake neared 37,000, and anger mounted among survivors, who say lax building standards are more to blame than the devastating natural disaster.

A lone survivor, a 17-year-old girl, was pulled from ruins in the nearly destroyed city of Antakya, in a moment of relief for rescuers. But the almost miraculous rescue was dwarfed by an ongoing recovery operation that shows little sign of slowing down more than 10 days after the devastating 7.8 quake.

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