Search on for Turkey quake survivors
Rescue workers look for survivors under the rubble of collapsed hotels in Van, eastern Turkey after an earthquake kills at least seven people.
At least 24 people were rescued alive from the rubble of buildings damaged in the quake that struck less than a month after a large tremor killed 600 people in the same area.
Two of those rescued, including a 16-month-old, were flown by air ambulance to a hospital in the capital Ankara. Rescue workers pulled a Japanese woman to safety from the rubble of the Bayram Hotel almost six hours after the quake, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.
The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said the quake toppled 25 buildings in the city of Van but only three of them were occupied since the others had been evacuated after suffering damages in last month’s tremor.
Only two hotels and a residential block had people living there.
Turkey is criss-crossed with seismic faultlines and experiences small tremors nearly every day. Some 20,000 people were killed by two large earthquakes in western Turkey in 1999.