A new earthquake of 6.4 magnitude on Monday killed 3 people and injured hundreds in parts of Turkey and Syria, devastated by a massive earthquake two weeks ago that killed tens of thousands.
Officials said more buildings collapsed, trapping residents and injuring several people in both Turkey and Syria.
The epicentre of the earthquake was Monday in the town of Daphne, in the Turkish state of Hatay, one of the worst affected areas by the February 6 earthquake of 7.8 magnitude, felt by the residents of Syria, Jordan, Israel and Egypt.
It was followed by another 5.8 magnitude earthquake.
The devastating February 6 earthquake killed nearly 45 thousand people in the two countries, the vast majority of them in Turkey.
The Turkish authorities have recorded more than 6 thousand aftershocks since then.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said 3 people were killed and 213 injured in the new 6.4-degree earthquake, which hit Turkey and Syria on Monday.
Search and rescue efforts are under way in 3 collapsed buildings where 5 people are believed to be trapped.
Hatay Mayor Lutfu Savash said a number of buildings collapsed in the new earthquake, trapping people inside.
Savash added to NTV that the trapped may have been people who had returned to their homes, or were trying to move furniture from damaged homes.
Turkish Vice President Fuad Ahtay said at least 8 people had been hospitalized in Turkey.
On the other hand, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that more than 470 people had been injured and hospitalized in Syria, while the official Syrian news agency SANA reported that 6 people had been injured in Aleppo by debris after the earthquake.
Civilian casualties as a result of stones falling on them, jumping from high buildings or scrambling, and others were reported as fainting.
Two uninhabited cracked buildings, a mosque minaret in Genderes, north of Aleppo, and a number of fractured buildings in Khirbat al-Joz, Hamzia, Maland and Zouf, west of Idlib, collapsed without injury.
The walls and balconies of houses in several towns and towns of Previ Aleppo and Idlib also collapsed in a preliminary tally.
Aleppo Health Director Ziad al-Haj Taha said there were no ambulatory cases caused by the fall of buildings as a result of the aftershock, pointing to people who reviewed al-Razi Hospital "due to fear and people coming out of their homes speeding to the streets."