<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey on Monday, killing one person and wounding dozens others while causing some damaged buildings to collapse, the government's disaster agency said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The epicentre of the tremor was the Yesilyurt district in the Malatya province, which was hit by the February 6 earthquake that killed over 44,000 people in Turkey and thousands more in neighbouring Syria.</div><div><br></div><div>"One citizen lost his life. Some 69 were injured," Yunus Sezer, chairman of AFAD disaster agency, said in televised comments.</div><div><br></div><div>AFAD tweeted that 29 buildings already damaged by a powerful February 6 earthquake had collapsed.</div><div><br></div><div>"Our search and rescue teams were quickly dispatched to the region, and started to work," it added.</div><div><br></div><div>The local mayor, Mehmet Cinar, said a father and his daughter were trapped after they entered a damaged building to get their belongings, Turkish media reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Television images showed the man being carried on a stretcher into an ambulance, while rescue teams were trying to make contact with his daughter inside the damaged building.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkish authorities have expanded a criminal probe into individuals responsible for buildings levelled by the deadly earthquake that left millions without homes.</div><div><br></div><div>AFAD recorded almost 10,000 aftershocks after the February 6 quake. Some 173,000 buildings are believed to have sustained damage according to local media reports.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkish media has vocally criticised developers for using shoddy materials and failing to comply with construction codes.</div><div><br></div><div>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced plans to rebuild 270,000 homes in the devastated provinces within one year. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>