A value 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday — 3 weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the location — inflicting a few already broken homes to disintegrate and killing at the least one person, government said. More than a hundred others have been injured due to the earthquake which became targeted withinside the metropolis of Yesilyurt in Malatya province, Yunus Sezer, the leader of the country`s catastrophe control agency, AFAD, informed reporters. More than dozen homes collapsed.

A father and daughter who have been trapped below the rubble of a four-tale constructing in Yesilyurt have been rescued with injuries. The pair had entered the broken constructing to acquire belongings. Elsewhere in Malatya, search-and-rescue groups have been sifting thru the rubble of broken homes that toppled on pinnacle of a few parked cars, trapping 3 humans, HaberTurk reported.

Malatya became amongst eleven Turkish provinces hit with the aid of using the value 7.eight earthquake that devastated elements of southern Turkey and northerly Syria on Feb. 6. That quake brought about greater than 48,000 deaths in each nations in addition to the disintegrate or extreme harm of 185,000 homes in Turkey.

AFAD`s leader advised humans now no longer to go into broken homes pronouncing sturdy aftershocks hold to pose a risk. More than 10,000 aftershocks have hit the location laid low with the quake considering Feb. 6.

Meanwhile, fanatics of Turkish football crew Besiktas threw filled toys on the sphere for the duration of a fit on Sunday to guide kids laid low with the earthquake. Toys and iciness garb have been thrown at the stadium’s grounds to be donated to kids withinside the earthquake-hit regions.