Monitoring Desk
ANTAKYA, TURKEY: Three people died after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, almost 14 days after a deadly earthquake struck the region.
More than 680 people were reported injured in Turkey and Syria in the new quake. Disaster and emergency agency of Turkey, Afad said the tremor occurred at 20:04 local time (17:04 GMT), followed by dozens of aftershocks, reported BBC News.
A 7.8-magnitude quake had struck the same area on February 6, killing more than 44,000 people in Syria and Turkey. Those killed by Monday’s tremor were found in Defne, Antakya and Samandagi, according to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu as he urged people not to enter potentially dangerous buildings. He further said that 213 people had been injured in Turkey.
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Quake further damaged buildings
Witnesses told the Reuters news agency there had been further damage to buildings in Antakya, while the mayor of Hatay, in southern Turkey, said people were trapped under rubble. “I thought the earth was going to split open under my feet,” Muna al-Omar, a local resident, told Reuters, crying as she held her seven years old son. She said that she was in a tent in a park in central Antakya when the latest earthquake hit.
