An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 registered this Monday in southern Turkey caused one death, injured 69 and destroyed several buildings, three weeks after the earthquake that devastated the region.
The earthquake registered on Monday affected the city of Ysilyurt, in the province of Malatya, reported the department of the Turkish government for emergency situations (AFAD).
AFAD chief Yunus Sezer told reporters that more than twenty buildings collapsed as a result of this earthquake.
Yesilyurt city mayor Mehmet Cinar told Haberturk TV station that “a father and a daughter” were “trapped in the rubble of a four-story building” after entering the building in an attempt to pick up some belongings.
The same television channel reported that rescue teams are currently operating in the parking lots of two apartment buildings that were damaged.
The city of Malatya is one of the eleven provinces of Turkey hit by the earthquake that devastated parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6.
The earthquake earlier in the month (magnitude 7.8) claimed at least 48,000 lives in both countries and damaged 173,000 buildings in Turkey.
The Government and the AFAD today called on the population not to try to enter the buildings damaged by the risk of aftershocks.
Source: TSF
