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Al Jazeera

New tremors add to misery in quake-affected Turkey, Syria

Rescuers search for bodies in the aftermath of the latest earthquake in Hatay province, Turkey [Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters]

At least six people have been killed and more than 200 people injured after magnitude 6.3 and 5.8 earthquakes hit southern Turkey and across the border in Syria, two weeks after two powerful quakes killed tens of thousands of people and devastated vast swaths of the region.

Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride, reporting from Defne in Turkey’s Hatay province – hit by the magnitude 6.3 quake on Monday – said the latest quakes were “adding more misery and suffering to an area and people that have already suffered so much”.

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