This live blog is closed, thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Turkey-Syria earthquake on Tuesday, February 21:
This live blog is closed, thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Turkey-Syria earthquake on Tuesday, February 21:
- New earthquakes on Monday in Turkey and Syria have killed at least six people.
- The biggest of those, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, struck the southern Turkish province of Hatay and northern Syria.
- The head of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority says 294 people were injured.
- The epicentre was in the district of Samandagi in Turkey, according to Turkish monitor Kandilli, but it was felt in Syria, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, according to media reports.
- Syria’s state news agency reported six people were injured in Aleppo from falling debris, while the mayor of Hatay said a number of buildings had collapsed, trapping people inside.
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