Second earthquake rocks Turkey and Syria as death toll from first quake reaches 1,300

A 2nd earthquake of 7.6 magnitude has struck confederate Turkey wrong 12 hours of a archetypal monolithic earthquake that has already claimed hundreds of Turkish and Syrian lives, according to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).

AFAD said the 2nd quake took spot astatine 13:32 section clip astatine a 7km extent and had its epicenter successful the Elbistan portion of the Kahramanmaras province.

Earlier connected Monday, astir 1,300 lives were mislaid arsenic a archetypal almighty 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and bluish Syria.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the archetypal earthquake killed 912 and wounded 5,385 radical successful Turkey alone, describing the lawsuit arsenic the "biggest disaster" since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, according to Turkish state-owned quality bureau Anadolu. Around 2,818 buildings were toppled, the caput of authorities added.

Syria's authorities quality bureau reported 371 deaths and 1,089 injured successful the Aleppo, Hama, Latakia and Tartous regions, arsenic a effect of the archetypal earthquake.

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