Syrian activist Abdul Kafi al-Hamdo, a resident of the rebel-held region of Idlib bordering Turkey, said most people had been staying away from damaged or weak buildings since the February 6 quakes. In footage or videos emerging from that region you can see people in cars and in the streets, people are frightened, are panicking,” Khodr said.
“Most of the people who were affected two weeks ago are now living in tents outdoors. Citizens in the al-Bab district of Aleppo, Syria, wait outside in safe areas However, she noted they had yet to receive any reports of “serious injuries”. More than 100 people have been injured, according to the Syria volunteer group, the White Helmets.Īl Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut, said in northwest Syria as well as government-controlled Aleppo, there were reports that some buildings damaged in the February 6 earthquake had collapsed.
Meanwhile, Syria’s state news agency reported six people were injured in Aleppo from falling debris. Mounds of debris and discarded furniture lined the dark, abandoned streets.Īl Jazeera’s Sami Zeidan, reporting from Samandag, said that at least 28 buildings had collapsed, according to official figures.Īuthorities said there had been 90 aftershocks since Monday’s quakes, Zeidan added. In Hatay’s Samandag district – the epicentre of the magnitude 6.3 quake – where AFAD had reported one person dead on Monday, residents said more buildings had collapsed but most of the town’s residents had already fled after the initial earthquakes. 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, Turkish health minister Fahrettin Koca said on Tuesday. The earthquake was felt in Syria, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, according to media reports. We thought the ground would tear apart,” Hatay resident Aslan Gracoglu told Al Jazeera. At least 41,156 people were killed in Turkey alone. The head of AFAD said at least 294 people were injured in Monday evening’s earthquake that caused panic among people already devastated by the February 6 quakes that killed more than 47,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said a magnitude 5.8 quake followed three minutes after the first one. The Hatay provincial governor’s building, already damaged in the February 6 quakes, collapsed in the latest tremor that struck at 8:04pm (17:04 GMT), television footage showed. “People who were once living out in the streets under tents were again outside reliving, if you like, all of the trauma of living through earthquakes … so it is an incredible concern for everybody who is here, trying to rebuild their lives.” “It happened at a time when people were coming back to buildings that have already been damaged and have been sifting through what used to be their homes looking for possessions,” he said. At least six people have been killed and more than 200 people injured after magnitude 6.3 and 5.8 earthquakes hit southern Turkey and across the border in Syria, two weeks after two powerful quakes killed tens of thousands of people and devastated vast swaths of the region.Īl Jazeera’s Rob McBride, reporting from Defne in Turkey’s Hatay province – hit by the magnitude 6.3 quake on Monday – said the latest quakes were “adding more misery and suffering to an area and people that have already suffered so much”.
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