The death toll in Turkiye and Syria rose to eight in a new and powerful earthquake that struck two weeks after a devastating temblor killed nearly 45,000 people, authorities and media said Tuesday. (AP)
Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said there had been 90 aftershocks. Six thousand tents were sent to the area overnight for residents alarmed by the new quake.
The Hatay provincial governor's building, already damaged in the Feb. 6 quakes, collapsed in the latest tremor, television footage showed.
Timely decision, excellent inter-agency coordination made Indian team among first few medical teams to reach Turkiye: Gen Manoj Pande
Proud of our medical team for rendering humanitarian aid, relief to quake-hit Turkiye: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande
The hospital treated close to 3,600 patients. We have received messages from Turkish citizens expressing their gratitude for providing them assistance in the hour of need: Indian Army chief Gen Manoj Pande
The Chief of Army Staff felicitates the Indian Army's medical team 60 Para Field as they returned home after providing assistance in Turkey.
The hospital was mobilized at a short notice of 6 hours and a 30 bedded hospital was organized in Turkey. It was a timely decision. the Field hospital was self-contained for 14 days and comprised specialist doctors: Indian Army chief Gen Manoj Pande
A man uses a smartphone next to sleeping children outside after an earthquake in Antakya in Hatay province, Turkey, Credit: Reuters Photo
The Indian Army's field hospital treated more than 3,600 earthquake victims in Turkey.
The Indian disaster relief team, comprising 99 personnel of the hospital and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), provided medical relief to the victims in Hatya province -- one of the worst-hit regions of the country.
The Indian team returned home on Monday.
The Ministry of Defence said that the team's effort has been applauded both at the national and international levels.
The field hospital treated a total of 3,604 casualties, provided emergency medical care and performed 40 major surgeries, 630 minor surgeries, 343 minor procedures, including 870 POP applications for fixing fractures.
In Samandag, where the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority AFAD had reported one person dead on Monday, residents said more buildings collapsed but most of the town had already fled after the initial earthquakes.
Mounds of debris and discarded furniture lined the dark, abandoned streets.
The death toll from the quakes two weeks ago rose to 41,156 in Turkey, AFAD said on Monday, and it was expected to climb further, with 385,000 apartments known to have been destroyed or seriously damaged and many people still missing.
President Tayyip Erdogan said construction work on nearly 200,000 apartments in 11 earthquake-hit provinces of Turkey would begin next month.
Six people were killed in an earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, two weeks after a larger quake killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 294 people were injured in Monday evening's earthquake, with 18 seriously hurt and transported to hospitals in Adana and Dortyol.
Patients were evacuated from some health facilities that had remained in operation after the massive tremors two weeks ago, as cracks had emerged in the buildings, Koca said on Twitter.
In the opposition-held area of northwestern Syria, at least 150 were injured, many of them trampled in a panicked rush to safety, but there were no confirmed deaths, according to the White Helmets, a civil defense group there.
The quake struck at 8:04 p.m. in Hatay, Turkey’s southernmost province, and was measured at 6.4 magnitude by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center and 6.3 by the U.S. Geological Survey.
It was centered in one of the areas hardest hit by the Feb. 6 quake and by its aftershocks, which flattened thousands of buildings, entombing victims in concrete and twisted metal, claimed at least 46,000 lives in Turkey and Syria, and left many more people homeless.
Just two weeks after the worst earthquake in more than 80 years devastated much of southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, another powerful temblor struck the same region Monday
Once again, the country saw collapsing buildings and as the fresh quake claimed lives and sowed panic among millions of people already traumatized by disaster.
Turkey's disaster management agency said on Twitter another 5.8-magnitude quake followed three minutes later and its epicentre was Samandag district in Hatay.
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