The death toll from a new pair of earthquakes that hit the Turkish-Syrian border on Monday rose to six, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, two weeks after the largest earthquakes in the two countries killed more than 47,000 people and injured hundreds of thousands wounds. Houses.

Monday’s first quake, this time measuring 6.4, struck near the southern Turkish city of Antakya and was felt in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. Its source was at a depth of 10 kilometers, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said. This was followed by a second push measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale.

CNN Turk showed a rescue team climbing a ladder to enter a building where several people were trapped after the latest earthquake. He said the quake happened when people were in the already damaged building to collect their belongings before it was demolished.

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 294 people were injured in Monday’s earthquake, 18 of whom were seriously injured and taken to hospitals in Adana and Dorthiol.

Patients have been evacuated from some medical facilities that were still operating after strong earthquakes two weeks ago as cracks appeared in the buildings, Mr. Koca said on Twitter.

In Samadag, where the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reported one death on Monday, residents said more buildings had collapsed, but most of the city’s population had already left after the first aftershocks.

Muna Al Omar said she was in a tent in a park in downtown Antioch when the ground began to move again. “I thought the ground would open up under my feet,” she said on Monday, crying as she held her seven-year-old son in her arms.

The death toll from the two-week-old earthquakes in Turkey reached 41,156, AFAD said on Monday and is expected to rise, with 385,000 homes destroyed or severely damaged and many people still missing.

Source: Reuters, TRT