A brand new magnitude 6.3 earthquake on Monday hit Turkey and Syria’s border area, killing three folks, weeks after devastating quakes killed tens of hundreds of individuals.

Greater than 200 folks have additionally been injured in Turkey as buildings collapsed trapping some folks. Dozens of accidents had been additionally recorded in neighbouring Syria.

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

Turkish inside minister Suleyman Soylu mentioned three folks had been killed and 213 injured. Search and rescue efforts had been underneath manner in three collapsed buildings the place six folks had been believed trapped.

In Hatay, police rescued one individual trapped inside a three-storey 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 in a earlier 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 defence organisation, reported greater than 130 accidents, most of them non-life threatening, together with fractures and instances of individuals fainting from concern, whereas various buildings in areas already broken by the earthquakes collapsed.

The February 6 quakes killed practically 47,000 folks in each international locations – principally in Turkey, the place greater than 1.5 million individuals are in non permanent shelters. Turkish authorities have recorded greater than 6,000 aftershocks since.