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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 21 February 2023

3 dead, more than 200 hurt as new quake hits Turkey, Syria

By SUZAN FRASER aged in the massive quake.
Associated Press Syria's state news agen-
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A cy, SANA, reported that
new 6.4 magnitude earth- six people were injured in
quake on Monday killed Aleppo by falling debris.
three people and injured The White Helmets, north-
more than 200 in parts west Syria's civil defense or-
of Turkey laid waste two ganization, reported more
weeks ago by a massive than 130 injuries, most of
quake that killed tens of them non-life threatening,
thousands, authorities said. including fractures and
More buildings collapsed, cases of people fainting
trapping some people, from fear, while a num-
while scores of injuries were ber of buildings in areas
recorded in neighboring already damaged by the
Syria too. quake collapsed. A boy is taken to an ambulance after being injured in the latest
Monday's earthquake was The Feb. 6 quake killed earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023.
centered in the town of De- nearly 45,000 people in Associated Press
fne, in Turkey's Hatay prov- both countries — the vast "We all threw ourselves out- as early as next month.
ince, one the worst-hit re- majority of them in Turkey, side and we continued to Erdogan said the new
gions in the magnitude 7.8 where more than a million shake outside," he said. buildings will be no taller
quake that struck on Feb. and a half people are in In the Syrian city of Idlib, than three or four stories,
6. It was felt in Syria, Jor- temporary shelters. Turkish frightened residents were built on firmer ground and
dan, Cyprus, Israel and as authorities have recorded preparing to sleep in parks to higher standards and in
far away as Egypt, and fol- more than 6,000 after- and other public places, consultation with "geophys-
lowed by a second, magni- shocks since. while fuel lines formed at ics, geotechnical, geology
tude 5.8 temblor. HaberTurk journalists re- gas stations as people at- and seismology professors"
Turkish Interior Minister Su- porting from Hatay said tempted to get as far as and other experts.
leyman Soylu said three they were jolted violently possible from any buildings The Turkish leader said
people were killed and 213 by Monday's quake and that might collapse. destroyed cultural monu-
injured. Search and rescue held onto to each other to The Syrian American Medi- ments would be rebuilt in
efforts were underway in avoid falling. cal Society, which runs accordance with their "his-
three collapsed buildings In the Turkish city of Ad- hospitals in northern Syria, toric and cultural texture."
where six people were be- ana, eyewitness Alejandro said it had treated a num- Erdogan said around 1.6
lieved trapped. Malaver said people left ber of patients — including million people are currently
In Hatay, police rescued homes for the streets, carry- a 7-year-old boy — who being housed in temporary
one person trapped inside ing blankets into their cars. suffered heart attacks shelters.
a three-story building and Malaver said everyone is brought on by fear follow- The Turkish disaster man-
were trying to reach three really scared and "no one ing the new quake. agement agency AFAD on
others inside, HaberTurk wants to get back into their President Recep Tayyip Er- Monday raised the number
television reported. houses." dogan visited Hatay ear- of confirmed fatalities from
It said those trapped in- Mehmet Salhaoglullari, lier on Monday, and said the Feb. 6 earthquake in
cluded movers helping from a village near Saman- his government would be- Turkey to 41,156. That in-
people shift furniture and dag, said he was eating gin constructing close to creased the overall death
other belongings from the at a restaurant when the 200,000 new homes in the toll in both Turkey and Syria
building that was dam- building began to shake. quake-devastated region to 44,844.q

Egypt unveils renovated wing of oldest museum, new papyrus

Monday, home to a 16-me- Eissa.
ter-long scroll unearthed For well over a decade,
last year. Egypt has been building
The refurbishment marks the a state-of-the-art museum
first stage of broader reno- near the pyramids which is
vations for the 120-year-old set to house tens of thou-
salmon-colored palatial sands of ancient artefacts.
complex sin downtown The Grand Egyptian Mu-
Cairo opposite the capital's seum has so far cost over
famed Tahrir Square. $1 billion and its opening
Waziry Papyrus, the center- date has been repeatedly
piece of Monday's unveil- delayed.
ing, contains around 113 Egypt often publicly touts
spells from the Book of the ancient discoveries to at-
Dead. The museum also tract more tourists, a major
A section of the16-meter long papyrus named Waziri-1 Papyrus has added modern glass source of foreign currency
containing inscriptions from the Book of the Dead dating back protection and new interior for the cash-strapped North
to 50 BC, is displayed at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, Egypt, lighting. African country. The sector
Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. The opening ceremony of suffered a long downturn
Associated Press the upgraded wing was led after the political turmoil
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's min- ties unveiled a renovated by Egypt's Minister of Tour- and violence that followed
istry of tourism and antiqui- wing of its oldest museum ism and Antiquities Ahmed a 2011 uprising.q