More one month after belonging earthquakes that devastated southeastern Turkey, the Turkish authorities are still working to identify some 2500 corpses, Turkish coroner Ahmet Hilal assessed the situation on Friday.

The number of unidentified bodies last week was about 2,500, but thanks to DNA testingthis number goes decreasing every dayHilal explained to NTV.

He explained that Majority belonging unidentified victimsabout 1500, are in Hatay Province, most affected aftershocks, where the city of Antioquia was practically destroyed fully.

In many places rescue teams they took body samples which could not be immediately determined whether it was blood or, if this was not possible, pieces of tissue, bones or teeth, before the bodies were buried, so that later it could be compared with DNA those looking for a family member missingHillal said.

There were cases, albeit few in number, when the victims were buried. without prior sampling and then it becomes necessary open the gravehe added.

According to the coroner, only in the province of Kahramanmaras, the second most affected by earthquakes, 425 boxes in which it was necessary reopen grave. It also happened repeatedly he buried himself to the dead under wrong identity.

“Someone identifies the corpse as a member of the family, says, for example, that it is their mother and as such is buried, but later they see that their mother’s body is found under the rubble, and they have to open the grave in order to return to bury the first person in the cemetery for strangers; it happens,” the expert added.

According to official data, earthquakes gone close to 47,000 dead V eleven Turkish provinces which go from Diyarbakir, in the Kurdish part of Anatolia, to Hatay and Adana, in the Mediterranean Sea.

Some 230,000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged to such an extent that they must be demolished immediately.