Seven people were killed in Turkey in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that hit western Iran early Sunday morning, Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu announced.
The earthquake centred on the Iranian city of Khoy and struck villages in the Turkish province of Van.
Soylu told a news conference in Ankara that three children and four adults were killed in Turkey’s Baskule district. Five injured people had been taken to hospital while others remained trapped under the debris of fallen buildings, he added.
Emergency teams have been sent to the mountainous region.
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