An earthquake shook southeast Turkey on Monday, killing one person, injuring 69 and causing some buildings to collapse, Turkish authorities said.
It hit three weeks after a massive quake that
killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria.
Yunus Sezer, head of Turkey Disaster and
Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) told a news conference that search and
rescue teams had been deployed to five buildings.
The quake, which struck the southeastern
province of Malatya, was measured by the European-Mediterranean Seismological
Centre at a magnitude of 5.2.
AFAD put it at 5.6. It struck at a depth of 5
km (3 miles), said EMSC.
Media reports said two people were believed
to be trapped in the rubble of one building.
Turkey has arrested 184 people suspected of
complicity in the collapse of buildings in this month’s earthquakes and
investigations are widening, a minister said on Saturday.
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