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TURKEY EARTHQUAKE: DEADLY NEW TREMOR TRAPS PEOPLE UNDER RUBBLE

Rescuers are once again searching for people trapped under rubble in Turkey after two new earthquakes hit the country, killing at least three people.

 Tremors of 6.4 and 5.8 magnitude struck in the south-east near the border with Syria, where massive quakes devastated both countries on 6 February.

 The earlier quakes killed 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria with tens of thousands more left homeless.

 Buildings weakened by those tremors collapsed in both countries on Monday.

 Turkey’s disaster and emergency agency says the 6.4 tremor occurred at 20:04 local time (17:04 GMT), followed by the 5.8 quake three minutes later.

 The three deaths occurred in Antakya, Defne, and Samandag, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said, urging people not to enter potentially dangerous buildings.

 Mr Soylu said 213 people had also been injured.

 

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