Three people were killed on Monday when two fresh earthquakes struck the province of Hatay in Turkey, exactly two weeks after the region was devastated by larger tremors that killed almost 45,000 people.
Rescue teams were searching for five people who were trapped in the rubble of newly collapsed buildings, Süleyman Soylu, the interior minister, said in a live broadcast. He said that 213 people had been hospitalised with injuries after the quakes measuring 6.4 and 5.8 in magnitude struck just minutes apart.
Families already made homeless and sheltering in tents bundled children into cars for safety. One family that had recently returned to its second-storey flat in Antakya told HaberTurk news channel that it had been forced to flee again. Witnesses in the city of Diyarbakir, located about 500km from Antakya, said they had experienced violent shaking.