Ghada Eltahir Mudawiwill, UN Deputy Director, operations and advocacy division, office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, will hold an update from Gaziantep, Turkey on the humanitarian situation after a fresh 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria.

Monday's earthquake was centered in the town of Defne, in Turkey's Hatay province, one of the worst-hit regions in the the magnitude 7.8 magnitude quake that hit on Feb. 6, killing approximately 45, 000 people.

Turkey's disaster management authority said the new quake killed six people and injured 294 others.

Hatay's Mayor Lutfu Savas told NTV television that those trapped may be people who had either returned to homes or were trying to move furniture from damaged homes. Pro-government media outlets in Syria said a woman and a girl died as a result of panic during Monday's earthquake.

The Syrian opposition's Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, reported that several people were injured in Syria's rebel-held northwest after they jumped from buildings or when they were struck by falling debris in the town of Jinderis, one of the towns worst effected by the Feb. 6 earthquake.


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