At least one person was killed and twenty-nine others were injured in an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 which struck the city of Sindirgi on Sunday in western Turkey, the Turkish authorities said. Several buildings collapsed.
‘An 81 -year -old person died shortly after being saved from the rubble,’ said Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya who hurried. ‘Thank goodness, none of our twenty-ninth injured was seriously injured’, he added.
In the villages around Sindirgi, sixteen buildings, including four dwellings and twelve disused buildings, collapsed without making victims, the inhabitants who were able to evacuate them safely, said the minister.
The deceased person died shortly after being extracted from the rubble from a three-story building inhabited by six people in the city center of Sindirgi.
Several seismic faults
The earthquake, which occurred at 7:53 p.m. (6:53 p.m. in Switzerland), was felt in many cities in the west of the country, including Istanbul and Izmir, according to the Turkish Catastrophes Management Agency (AFAD). Twenty replicas of magnitude ranging from 3.5 to 4.6 occurred after the earthquake, according to AFAD.
319 rescuers were deployed in the area while the emergency call center received 24 damage reports, added the AFAD.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 had made a victim and 69 injured in early June in southwest Turkey. The country is crossed by several flaws which have caused many dramas in the past.
The south-east of the country underwent a violent earthquake in February 2023 which left at least 53,000 dead and devastated Antakya, the old antioch.
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