The authorities of the Eshilyurta district of Malatya reported the collapse of 25 houses as a result of a new earthquake, a father and daughter are under the rubble of one of the houses. Search and rescue work continues. It is known that one person died, 69 were injured.
Another earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 was reported by the Turkish Anadolu media. The tremors were also felt in the nearby provinces of Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep, Adiyaman and Sanliurfa.
“We face tremors almost every three minutes after the earthquakes in Kahramanmaras. Most of them have a strength of 5 points or more,” the presidium of disaster and emergency management said.
On February 6, a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck the southern provinces of Turkey and northwestern Syria. As a result, more than 47 thousand people died in both countries.