Turkey hit by two more powerful earthquakes two weeks after disaster
by Ruth Michaelson in Istanbul from World news | The Guardian on (#691V5)
Three killed and 213 injured, government says, after quakes of 6.4 and 5.8 magnitude shake southern province of Hatay
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake and a second measuring 5.8 have hit Turkey's southern province of Hatay, terrifying those left in a region devastated by twin earthquakes two weeks ago.
Turkey's interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, said that at least three people were killed and 213 wounded by the latest quakes, after a large government hospital in the city of skenderun in the north of Hatay province declared it was evacuating patients.
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