Dozens of people may still be buried beneath the rubble in this Mediterranean port town, as rescue efforts continue in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake which struck on Saturday.
More than 131 bodies have already been recovered. Hopes of finding anyone else alive are fading fast.
"It's a million to one chance now," one rescuer said. "There's so little oxygen under there in this heat."
A middle-aged woman carried carefully from the rubble on Monday, more than 48 hours after her apartment block collapsed in ruins, provided a brief glimmer of hope for the relatives and friends of the missing.
Yesterday, however, it was back to the grim task of removing the dead. The body of an eight-year-old boy was recovered from the flattened remains of one eight-storey building, which had contained homes, shops and a doctor's office.
Sniffer dogs and specialised cutting equipment are still being used to sift through every inch of debris, while the constant thud of bulldozers hard at work echoes through the otherwise quiet streets.
The tragedy is still unfolding, but it could have been substantially worse. It was fortunate that the quake struck during a weekend afternoon, when many people were out of doors, or sitting in local cafes watching Italy play Norway in the World Cup.
Tents with the sign of the Red Crescent are dotted around public parks and small plots of land, but some local people are complaining bitterly that the food and shelter promised to them by the state have not materialised.
"They come, they look at us and then they walk away," one man said bitterly.
Adana provincial authorities said the quake, which registered 6.3 on the Richter scale, left 69 dead in Ceyhan, the hardest hit, and injured more than 1,500 people in the province. About 120 were still in hospital yesterday.
Four aftershocks were recorded overnight in the province.