Turkey's death toll rises to more than 36,000

The death toll from last week's powerful earthquakes in southern Turkey has risen to at least 36,187, according to the country's disaster emergency agency, Afad.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that 35,418 people were killed in the 7.8 magnitude quake that struck near the southeastern city of Kahramanmaras on 6 February, making it the deadliest earthquake in Turkish history.

The earthquake, which Erdogan called “the disaster of the century”, destroyed tens of thousands of buildings and rendered an equal number uninhabitable.