The death toll has risen to eight in a new and powerful earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria two weeks after a temblor killed nearly 45,000 people.
that struck Turkey and Syria two weeks after a devastating temblor killed nearly 45,000 people, authorities and media said.
Turkey’s disaster management authority said six people were killed and 294 others were injured, 18 critically, after Monday’s magnitude 6.4 quake. In Syria, a woman and a girl died as a result of panic during the earthquake in the provinces of Hama and Tartus, government media outlets said. The earthquake’s epicenter was in the town of Defne, in Turkey’s Hatay province, which borders Syria. It was felt in Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and as far away as Egypt, and was followed by a second, magnitude 5.8 temblor and dozens of aftershocks.that struck Feb. 6. Thousands of buildings were destroyed in the province, and Monday’s quake further damaged buildings. The governor’s office in Antakya, Hatay’s historic heart, was also damaged.
Officials have warned quake victims not to go into the remains of their homes, but people have done so to retrieve what they can. They were caught up in the new quake. The vast majority of deaths in the massive Feb. 6 quake, which was followed by a magnitude 7.5 temblor nine hours later, were in Turkey,
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