32 dead in fresh Turkey quake

The death toll from a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that recently struck eastern Turkey rose to 32 on Saturday, authorities and media reports said.

Announcing the new toll, which stood at 27 earlier Saturday, the emergency unit of the prime minister's office said on its website that 30 people had been rescued since the Wednesday quake.

Rescuer workers 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.

The quake hit Edremit town, some 15 km 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.