Second earthquake in same Turkey province,12 killed

At least twelve people were killed by a second earthquake in eastern Turkey,and residents protested Thursday that authorities should have closed down two hotels that were damaged by the first quake. The earthquake hit the same region slammed by a quake on October 23 that left 600 people dead in Van province.

Van’s most prominent hotel,the Bayram Hotel,survived the first quake,but it toppled in the new,magnitude-5.7 quake. The Aslan Hotel,a budget operation in Van,also collapsed.