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A woman has died and 29 people were injured after buildings collapsed in an earthquake that struck the northwestern province of Balikesir on Sunday evening. The 6.1-magnitude quake was followed by three smaller aftershocks.
An 81-year-old woman died shortly after being pulled from the rubble in the town of Sindirgi, which was the epicenter of the earthquake, Turkey's interior minister said.
As a result of the earthquake, 16 buildings collapsed and 29 people were injured, Ali Yerlikaya added.
The Turkish Disaster Management Agency said the earthquake was recorded at around 7:53 p.m. local time.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement wishing a speedy recovery to all those affected and said all recovery efforts are being closely monitored.
"May God protect our country from all kinds of disasters," he wrote in X.
Search and rescue operations have ended and the interior minister said there were no further signs of serious damage or casualties.
However, photographs from Sindirgi show large buildings completely flattened and giant piles of twisted metal and debris.
Turkey is located at the intersection of three major tectonic plates and as a result experiences frequent seismic activity.
In February 2023, more than 50,000 people were killed when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the southeastern region of the country.
Another 5,000 were killed in neighboring Syria.
More than two years after that earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced.
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