Earthquake in Turkey-Iran border region kills nine, injures more than 100 - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The shallow tremor caused more than 1,000 buildings to collapse in Turkey, prompting a brief rescue effort to find those trapped under rubble.

Crisscrossed by major fault lines, Iran and Turkey are among the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. “The damage caused loss of life,” the governor of Van, Mehmet Bilmez, told reporters standing in front of a pile of cinder blocks and sheet metal. “There is destruction in all four villages” he visited on Sunday morning, he added.

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority has begun rescue work in villages including in Ozpinar, about 25 km south of the epicenter, said Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. AFAD measured the initial tremor at 5.9 magnitude.

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