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Turkey-Syria New Earthquake leaves 6 dead, nearly 300 injured

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Live updates : on the Turkey-Syria earthquake: Six people were killed and over 200 injured on Monday in various areas of Turkey due to a fresh earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4

Live updates on the Turkey-Syria earthquake: Two weeks after a massive quake that killed over 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes, six people were murdered in an earthquake that slammed the Turkey-Syria border area, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday.

Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon were all affected by Monday’s earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.4 and was centred close to the city of Antakya in southern Turkey. According to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), it happened at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles).

According to Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, 294 individuals were affected during the quake on Monday evening, with 18 of them receiving critical injuries and being sent to hospitals in Adana and Dortyol.

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A second 5.8-magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in Hatay’s Samandag district was reported three minutes later by Turkey’s disaster management organisation on Twitter.

The area is still feeling the effects of two deadly earthquakes that occurred earlier this month as the new tremors occur. As rescue workers search through fallen buildings, the dead toll, which currently exceeds 41,000 in Turkey and thousands more in neighbouring Syria, is anticipated to keep climbing. critically injured and sent to hospitals in Dortyol and Adana.

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