ANKARA, Turkey — A brand new 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday killed three folks and injured greater than 200 others in components of Turkey laid waste two weeks in the past by a large quake that killed tens of hundreds, authorities mentioned. Extra buildings collapsed, trapping some folks, whereas scores of accidents had been recorded in neighboring Syria too.

Monday’s earthquake was centered within the city of Defne, in Turkey’s Hatay province, one the worst-hit areas within the magnitude 7.8 quake that struck on Feb. 6. It was felt in Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Israel and as distant as Egypt, and adopted by a second, magnitude 5.8 temblor.

Turkish Inside Minister Suleyman Soylu mentioned three folks had been killed and 213 injured. Search and rescue efforts had been underway in three collapsed buildings the place six folks had been believed trapped.

In Hatay, police rescued one individual trapped inside a three-story constructing and had been making an attempt to achieve three others inside, HaberTurk tv reported. It mentioned these trapped included movers serving to folks shift furnishings and different belongings from the constructing that was broken within the huge quake.

Syria’s state information company, SANA, reported that six folks had been injured in Aleppo by falling particles. The White Helmets, northwest Syria’s civil protection group, reported greater than 130 accidents, most of them non-life threatening, together with fractures and instances of individuals fainting from concern, whereas a lot of buildings in areas already broken by the quake collapsed.

The Feb. 6 quake killed almost 45,000 folks in each international locations — the overwhelming majority of them in Turkey, the place greater than 1,000,000 and a half individuals are in momentary shelters. Turkish authorities have recorded greater than 6,000 aftershocks since.

HaberTurk journalists reporting from Hatay mentioned they had been jolted violently by Monday’s quake and held onto to one another to keep away from falling.

Within the Turkish metropolis of Adana, eyewitness Alejandro Malaver mentioned folks left properties for the streets, carrying blankets into their automobiles. Malaver mentioned everybody is absolutely scared and “nobody needs to get again into their homes.”

Mehmet Salhaoglullari, from a village close to Samandag, mentioned he was consuming at a restaurant when the constructing started to shake.

“All of us threw ourselves exterior and we continued to shake exterior,” he mentioned.

Within the Syrian metropolis of Idlib, frightened residents had been getting ready to sleep in parks and different public locations, whereas gas strains fashioned at gasoline stations as folks tried to get so far as doable from any buildings that may collapse.

The Syrian American Medical Society, which runs hospitals in northern Syria, mentioned it had handled a lot of sufferers — together with a 7-year-old boy — who suffered coronary heart assaults introduced on by concern following the brand new quake.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Hatay earlier on Monday, and mentioned his authorities would start developing near 200,000 new properties within the quake-devastated area as early as subsequent month.

Erdogan mentioned the brand new buildings will probably be no taller than three or 4 tales, constructed on firmer floor and to increased requirements and in session with “geophysics, geotechnical, geology and seismology professors” and different specialists.

The Turkish chief mentioned destroyed cultural monuments can be rebuilt in accordance with their “historic and cultural texture.”

Erdogan mentioned round 1.6 million individuals are presently being housed in momentary shelters.

The Turkish catastrophe administration company AFAD on Monday raised the variety of confirmed fatalities from the Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey to 41,156. That elevated the general loss of life toll in each Turkey and Syria to 44,844.

Search and rescue operations for survivors have been known as off in a lot of the quake zone, however AFAD chief Yunus Sezer mentioned earlier that search groups had been persevering with their efforts in additional than a dozen collapsed buildings — largely in Hatay province.

There have been no indicators of anybody being alive underneath the rubble since three members of 1 household — a mom, father and 12-year-old boy — had been extracted from a collapsed constructing in Hatay on Saturday. The boy later died.

Authorities mentioned greater than 110,000 buildings throughout 11 quake-hit Turkish provinces had been both destroyed or so severely broken by the Feb. 6 quake that they have to be torn down.

The European Union’s well being company warned Monday of the chance of illness outbreaks within the coming weeks. The Centre for Illness Prevention and Controls mentioned that “meals and water-borne ailments, respiratory infections and vaccine-preventable infections are a threat within the upcoming interval, with the potential to trigger outbreaks, significantly as survivors are shifting to momentary shelters.”

“A surge of cholera instances within the affected areas is a big chance within the coming weeks,” it mentioned, noting that authorities in northwestern Syria have reported hundreds of instances of the illness since final September and a deliberate vaccination marketing campaign was delayed because of the quake.