Adiyaman is one of the cities most affected by the two devastating earthquakes on Monday. Images obtained by Mesopotamia News Agency (MA) show victims buried in mass.

A digger driver, who went to the city voluntarily from Silopi district of Sirnak released two videos showing a cemetery where dead bodies were buried. The first video shows 10 bodies wrapped in blankets, placed side by side, in the graves dug by a digger.

The second video shows many graves covered by earth. It is seen that the graves are marked only by stones and numbers.

BURIED WITH CLOTHES

The digger driver who provided the videos said: “We came here as a group of 7 people the day before. We are here to work as digger drivers. There is nobody in charge of the machines here. Neither AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency) nor the gendarmerie are present here. We've been burying bodies since the day before. We are mentally down. I won’t be able to bear it any longer. They pull bodies from the rubble, wrap them in blankets with their clothes and bury them. There is no one left alive here. They have all died. No one knows who was removed or who was buried.”

AFAD’S STATEMENT

In a previous statement, the state-run AFAD said that the relevant governorships and institutions-organizations were instructed by a Ministry of Interior notice issued on February 7 to maintain uniformity during identification and burial services. Therefore, bodies are buried after their DNA, fingerprint sample and photographs are taken following a 24-hour waiting period.