Ankara-Sana
Four people were killed and many others injured in an earthquake that struck eastern Turkey today and was felt by residents in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.
Sputnik news agency quoted Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu as saying that two people were killed in Malatya and two others in Alazig, eastern Turkey, as a result of the earthquake, which led to the collapse of a five-storey building and damaged dozens of buildings.
The National Seismic Monitoring Center in Damascus had announced that a "strong earthquake" earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale had been detected in eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km, a distance of 221 km northeast of the city of "Gaziantep" and felt by the population in most of the Syrian Arab Republic.
The European Mediterranean Center for Seismology reported earlier that an earthquake measuring 6.7 to 7 degrees east of Turkey occurred.
