Looting in Turkey as quake survivors seethe over aid

ERCIS, Turkey (AFP) - Desperate survivors of Turkey's devastating earthquake looted truckloads of aid supplies as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged failures on Wednesday in the relief effort.

As night-time temperatures dropped to below zero and snow was forecast to fall overnight, authorities were in a race against time to provide some form of shelter for the thousands of people who faced another night out in the open.

Weather reports said temperatures in Van province would dip two to four deg C on Thursday, with further snow expected at night.

Officials raised the death toll to 481, with more than 1,600 injured, but the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has said that 'hundreds, possibly thousands' of people are still trapped under the rubble in the eastern region.