Turkey hit by another strong earthquake as shattered country rebuilds after disaster that killed 50,000

ANOTHER highly effective earthquake has hit Turkey simply weeks after the catastrophe that killed greater than 50,000 folks.

A powerful 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck central Turkey on Saturday because the shattered nation makes an attempt to rebuild from a sequence of horror quakes this month.

Turkey has been hit by one other earthquake simply weeks after two quakes inside hours induced devastationCredit score: Getty

It was at a depth of 10km, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre mentioned, after an extra earthquake hit Turkey's Hatay province on Thursday.

Simply days earlier on Monday, a number of folks have been killed and tons of injured as two extra earthquakes struck the Turkey-Syria border.

The newest quakes come after two catastrophic earthquakes devastated the nation on February 6, leaving greater than 1,000,000 homeless and greater than 50,000 lifeless.

The earthquakes, which additionally rocked neighbouring Syria, destroyed buildings and infrastructure.

The loss of life toll from the tragedy continues to rise as extra our bodies are retrieved from the rubble of demolished buildings.

On Friday, the Catastrophe and Emergency Administration Authority mentioned the loss of life toll in Turkey as a consequence of earthquakes rose to 44,218.

With Syria's newest introduced loss of life toll of 5,914, the mixed loss of life toll within the two nations rose to above 50,000.

In an interview with state broadcaster TRT on Wednesday, Soylu mentioned groups have been sifting via two buildings in hard-hit Hatay province in the hunt for additional our bodies.

Search operations elsewhere have come to an finish, he mentioned.

Greater than 160,000 buildings containing 520,000 flats collapsed or have been severely broken within the earthquakes that struck hours aside on February 6.

President Tayyip Erdogan mentioned building work on almost 200,000 flats in 11 earthquake-hit provinces of Turkey would start subsequent month.

Final week a teenage woman was pulled alive from the rubble having been trapped for 248 hours.

Aleyna Olmez, 17, was discovered among the many wreckage of a collapsed house constructing by rescue staff having survived for greater than 10 days after the catastrophe.

NATO has pledged to ship greater than 1,000 containers that may function short-term shelters for no less than 4,000 folks left homeless by the earthquake.

The loss of life toll from February 6's catastrophe stands at greater than 47,000Credit score: AFP

Rescue staff from the world over have labored across the clock to avoid wasting as many individuals as potentialCredit score: EPA

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