Turkey's Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) said Sunday that the death toll reached 601 and the number of injured people was 4,152 in the 7.2-magnitude earthquake while 188 people have been pulled out alive from the rubble.

The AFAD said search and rescue efforts had been completed in Van, but relief efforts were underway at two spots in the worst- hit town of Ercis.

The rescue work would be halted overnight, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said on October 29.

The last person rescued alive was 13-year-old Ferhat Tokay, who was pulled out from rubble six days after the disaster.

Local residents camped out in tents or shelters despite bad weather, fearing that more building would collapse in aftershocks, as one aftershock on Sunday morning registered at 5.3-magnitude.

More than 43,000 tents had been delivered in Van, according to the government's disaster management website.

Efforts were underway to provide winter tents, containers and prefabricated houses for quake survivors as the winter was approaching, Turkey's City Planning Minister Erdogan Bayraktar said Saturday, promising that new dwellings would be ready in two separate regions in Ercis town and one in Van city by the end of September 2012 for people left homeless by the quake.