Rescue workers are once again searching for people buried under the rubble after two new earthquakes in Turkey, which have killed at least three people.
Magnitude 6.4 and 5.8 earthquakes struck in the southeast near the border with Syria, where major earthquakes struck both countries on February 6.
Earlier earthquakes in Turkey and Syria killed 44,000 people and left tens of thousands homeless.
Buildings weakened by the tremors collapsed in both countries on Monday.
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Agency said the 6.4-magnitude quake struck at 20:04 local time (17:04 GMT), followed three minutes later by a 5.8-magnitude quake.
Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said the three deaths occurred in Antakya, Dafne and Samandag, urging people not to enter potentially dangerous buildings.
Mr. Swallow said that 213 people have also been injured.
Reports from the city of Antakya showed panic on the streets as ambulances and aid workers scrambled to reach the worst-hit areas where walls of badly damaged buildings had collapsed.
“I thought the ground would crack under my feet,” local resident Mona Al-Omar told Reuters, clutching her seven-year-old son and crying. She was in a tent in a park in the center of the city when the new earthquakes struck.
Ali Mazloum, 18, told JEE News that he was searching for the bodies of family members from previous earthquakes when the tremors of the latest quake were felt.
“You don’t know what to do… We grabbed each other and right in front of us, the walls started falling,” he said.
In Syria, about 470 injured are said to have arrived in hospitals after Monday’s earthquake, which was also reportedly felt in Egypt and Lebanon.
