Rescuers find last quake victims; death toll hits 41

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Turkish emergency teams today recovered the bodies of the last two missing earthquake victims from therubble of a collapsed building, raising the death toll from the powerful tremor that hit eastern Turkey to 41.The magnitude 6.8 quake that struck Friday night also injured more than 1,600 others, authorities said. Atleast 45 survivors have been pulled out of the rubble alive.Rescue teams today drilled through the rubble in the eastern city of Elâziğ, trying to reach a missing 75-year-old woman and another person, as relatives waited nearby. Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu andMehmet Güllüoğlu, the head of the Turkish disaster management agency, later announced that their bodieshad been pulled out from the debris.The body of a third missing person was pulled out of the same collapsed structure overnight.