New Turkey quake kills one person, flattens more buildings
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[February 27, 2023]
By Timour Azhari
OSMANIYE, Turkey (Reuters) - An earthquake shook southeast Turkey on
Monday, killing one person, injuring 69 and causing 29 buildings to
collapse, Turkish authorities said, triggering frantic work to rescue
several people believed trapped in rubble.
The latest aftershock, with a magnitude of 5.6 and depth of 6.15 km, hit
three weeks after a massive quake that killed more than 50,000 people in
Turkey and Syria.
A rescue team carried out one man alive, strapped to a stretcher, from
the rubble of a building in the province of Malatya, live footage on
broadcaster CNN Turk showed.
A while later, it showed a woman, said to be the man's daughter, rescued
from the same building.
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Yunus Sezer, head of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management
Authority (AFAD) told a news conference that search and rescue teams had
been deployed to five buildings.
There have been four fresh earthquakes in the region in the past three
weeks, as well as 45 aftershocks with magnitudes between five and six,
said AFAD's general director of earthquake and risk reduction Orhan
Tatar.
"This is very extraordinary activity," Tatar said.
ELECTIONS DUE
The earthquakes have struck months ahead of presidential and
parliamentary elections, scheduled to be held by June, which present the
biggest political challenge to President Tayyip Erdogan in his
two-decade rule.
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A delegation from Turkey's High Election Board was scheduled to
visit the quake zone on Monday to start gathering material for a
report on the feasibility of holding elections in the region.
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.
On Sunday, AFAD announced that the death toll in the devastating
quake three weeks ago had risen to 44,374.
The overall number of deaths in Turkey and neighbouring Syria
exceeds 50,000.
More than 160,000 buildings containing 520,000 apartments collapsed
or were severely damaged in Turkey by the disaster, the worst in the
country's modern history.
The quakes are expected to have a deep psychological impact, with
children particularly vulnerable.
After the latest tremor, AFAD issued a fresh warning on Twitter
telling people not to enter or even stand near damaged buildings in
the earthquake zone.
(Reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever and Ece Toksabay in Ankara, Chandni
Shah in Bengaluru; Writing by Daren Butler and Humeyra Pamuk;
Editing by Gareth Jones and John Stonestreet)
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