A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday — a few weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the area — triggering some already destroyed properties to collapse, an official stated. A father and daughter were reported trapped beneath the rubble of a single making.
Monday’s earthquake was centered in the town of Yesilyurt in Malatya province, the country’s catastrophe management company reported.
Yesilyurt’s mayor, Mehmet Cinar, told HaberTurk tv that a quantity of buildings in the town collapsed, which include a four-story setting up in which a father and daughter were being trapped. Cinar reported the pair had entered the broken setting up to accumulate possessions.
In other places in Malatya, research-and-rescue teams were sifting by means of the rubble of a further building that toppled on top rated of some parked automobiles, HaberTurk described.
Malatya was among the 11 Turkish provinces hit by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria on Feb. 6.
That quake led to far more than 48,000 deaths in both equally international locations as well as the collapse or severe destruction of 173,000 structures in Turkey.
AFAD, Turkey’s disaster administration agency, claimed that shut to 10,000 aftershocks have strike the region afflicted by the quake considering the fact that Feb. 6.