Earthquakes that struck on the evening of February 20 near Turkey's border with Syria killed at least three people and injured 213 others in the affected area.. This was announced by Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu, Al Jazeera writes..

According to Ankara, two tremors were recorded in the south of the state, in the province of Hatay.. The first had a magnitude of 6.4. A few minutes later, a second earthquake struck - with a magnitude of 5.8.

The second tremor shook the Samandag region, located southwest of Defne, where the probable epicenter of the first earthquake was on Monday evening.

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Recall that the number of victims of powerful earthquakes that occurred two weeks ago in Turkey and Syria has increased to 40.6 thousand.. Earthquakes are estimated to have damaged the Turkish economy by at least $84 billion. At the same time, as they say, the consequences could not have been so terrible if it were not for the dominance of illegal developments in the country - because of this, more than 130 people were detained in Turkey.