The 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey on Monday was caught live on television as a local lawmaker was being interviewed. Lütfi Kaşıkçı, an MHP party lawmaker, was live on Bengü Türk TV when he suddenly started running as the tremor was felt. The camera operator also started running, the shaky footage showed. The mayor of Turkey’s Hatay province said there were reports of people stuck under the rubble after the quake. The two larger earthquakes that hit on 6 February, which also rocked neighbouring Syria, left more than a million homeless and killed at least 47,000 people in both countries, according to an official tally Turkey hit by two more powerful earthquakes two weeks after disaster
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