"We lost eight of our citizens, including three children," Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was quoted as saying by the official Anadolu news agency.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 21 people were injured and eight of them were in critical condition, according to Anadolu. Turkish broadcaster NTV showed images of collapsed adobe houses in several snow-covered villages in Van province on the Iran border. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with his interior minister to receive information about the search and rescue operation in the region, the Turkish presidency said.
The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 9:23 am , was near the Iranian village of Habash-e Olya, less than 10 kilometres from the border, according to the US Geological Survey. It injured at least 40 people and 17 of them have been hospitalised in Iran's West Azerbaijan province, according to the country's emergency services. Iran sits on top of major tectonic plates and sees frequent seismic activity.In 2003, a 6.
Iran's deadliest quake was a 7.4-magnitude tremor in 1990 that killed 40,000 people in northern Iran, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless.In 2011, an earthquake measuring 7.1 hit near the same region, killing more than 500 people.
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