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ANKARA: A 5.6 magnitude earthquake that recently struck eastern Turkey killed at least 27 people, including two Turkish journalists, the Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.
Rescuers over the night retrieved the bodies of two reporters from the private Dogan news agency -- 26-year-old Cem Emir and 58 year-old Sebahattin Yilmaz -- from the debris of a hotel building which was toppled by the earthquake late Wednesday.
The quake hit Edremit town, some 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Van province, according to the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory.
It struck less than three weeks after a massive deadly quake in the same area, which killed more than 600 people.
The toll stood at 19 Friday.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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