Thirty buildings also collapsed during this replica of the violent earthquake which struck Southeast Turkey and northern Syria on February 6.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
At least one person died, and dozens were injured on Monday, February 27, during a seismic shock of a magnitude of 5.6 in the Turkish province of Malatya (southeast), announced the ‘Government Agency for Natural Disasters Management (AFAD). “One of our fellow citizens is unfortunately dead. Seventy-nine injured were transferred to hospitals,” said Yunus Sezer, the president of the Afad, during a press point.
Thirty buildings also collapsed during this replica of the violent earthquake which struck Southeast Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, according to the same source.
Collapsed buildings
The mayor of the city of Yesilyurt, located near the epicenter, explained on the Habertürk television channel that a father and his daughter, who came to recover personal effects in their accommodation, are under the rubble of ‘One of the collapsed buildings. “Buildings collapsed, and our research and rescue teams were quickly dispatched,” said the Afad before Twitter .
Images broadcast on Monday by Turkish televisions showed action in action, some removing debris by hand. The replica occurred at 12:04 p.m. Local time (10:04 a.m. Paris time), according to the Afad.
The province of Malatya had already been affected by the devastating earthquake of February 6, which killed 44,374 people in the south and south-east of the country, according to the latest official assessment. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8, destroyed or damaged more than 170,000 buildings in eleven provinces in the country and also touched northern Syria, a neighbor. Some 10,000 aftershocks have taken place since February 6 in Turkey, according to Afad.