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(CNN) – Nine people died and 37 were injured in eastern Turkey after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake Shake a border area with Iran on Sunday, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca reported on Twitter.
The earthquake shook early Sunday and the epicenter was the city of Khoy, northwest of Iran, near the Turkish border, according to the agency of news Iran’s state IRNA.
Thirty people in that region were injured, IRNA said.
“Seven aftershocks shook the area afterwards,” IRNA said, citing the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of the University of Tehran.
With information from Yusuf Gezer in Istanbul.
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