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An earthquake struck southeast Turkey on Monday, killing one person, injuring 69 and destroying 29 buildings, Turkish authorities said. The last aftershock with a magnitude of 5.6 and
An earthquake struck southeast Turkey on Monday, killing one person, injuring 69 and destroying 29 buildings, Turkish authorities said.
The last aftershock with a magnitude of 5.6 and a depth of 6.15 km occurred three weeks after a strong earthquake resulting in more than 50,000 deaths in Turkey and Syria.
A rescue team pulled a living man tied to a stretcher from the rubble of a building in Malatya province, CNN Turk’s live footage showed. Shortly thereafter, a woman, believed to be the man’s daughter, was rescued from the same building.
Yunus Sezer, head of Turkey’s Emergency and Disaster Management Authority (AFAD), told a press conference that search teams have been deployed and save in five buildings.
Over the past three weeks, four new earthquakes have occurred in the region, as well as 45 replicas with a magnitude of five to six, said Orkhan Tatar, director general of AFAD for earthquakes and risk reduction.
“This is an extraordinary activity,” Tatar said.
The earthquakes occurred months before the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for June, which are the biggest political challenge for the president. Tayyip Erdogan during the two decades of his reign.
A delegation from the Turkish Supreme Electoral Council was scheduled to visit the earthquake area on Monday to begin collecting materials for a report on the possibility of holding elections in the region.
Turkey arrests 184 people suspected of complicity in building collapse in earthquakes this month, and investigations are expanding, the minister said on Saturday.
On Sunday, AFAD announced that the number dead during the devastating earthquake three weeks ago, it had risen to 44,374. The total death toll in Turkey and neighboring Syria exceeds 50,000.
More than 160,000 buildings with 520,000 apartments collapsed or were badly damaged in Turkey as a result of catastrophethe worst in the modern history of the country.
Reuters
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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