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Turkey has been hit by another earthquake today, killing one person, injuring 69 others and causing already damaged buildings to collapse – three weeks after a catastrophic tremor devastated the country and killed 48,000 people.
The magnitude 5.6 earthquake was centred in the town of Yesilyurt in Malatya province in southern Turkey, the country’s disaster management agency said.
A father and daughter were rescued from beneath the rubble of a four-storey building and carried to an ambulance on stretchers. Yesilyurt’s mayor, Mehmet Cinar, said the pair had entered the damaged building to collect belongings, reports Daily Mail.
Dramatic footage shows already damaged buildings collapsing into piles of rubble on the streets of Malatya following the earthquake, while search-and-rescue teams sifted through the rubble of another building that toppled on top of some parked cars.
Malatya was among 11 Turkish provinces that was hit hard by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6. That quake led to more than 48,000 deaths in both countries as well as the collapse or serious damage of 173,000 buildings in Turkey.
