Turkey: Earthquake in Kutahya province leaves two dead
Residents of Simav were warned not to go back to their homes
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 has struck north-west Turkey, killing at least two people and injuring 79.
The tremor struck just before midnight local time and centred on the town of Simav, in Kutahya province, some 310km (190 miles) west of the capital Ankara.
Terrified residents ran into the streets, and many spent the night in cars after being warned not to go back to their homes.
One person died after jumping from a window in panic, officials said.
Environment Minister Veysel Eroglu put the death toll at two, and said that of the 79 injured only one was in a serious condition.
Kutahya Governor Kenan Ciftci said three people had died.
State media reported that at least one derelict building collapsed and the windows in some buildings were shattered by the quake, which struck at 2315 (2015 GMT).
"It was so strong that we could not even move in the first few seconds," lawmaker Idris Bal told NTV television. "People are waiting in their cars now."
The quake was followed by around 50 aftershocks, the Kandilli observatory in Istanbul reported.
Turkey is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because it sits on major geological fault lines.
At least 51 people were killed in a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey in March 2010.
Two earthquakes in 1999 with a magnitude of more than 7 killed almost 20,000 people in densely populated parts of the north-west of the country.
Two people were killed in a  5.9 earthquake in Turkey shortly before midnight local time on Thursday. The  was located in , , and was at a depth of 7.6 km. In the hours following the initial earthquake, Kütahya was shaken by several aftershocks.

Officials said two people were killed; one was thought to have suffered a  and the other died after jumping from a window in panic. Dozens more were injured. Emergency services dispatched  and gave out blankets, food and water. Officials said a  had not been damaged by the earthquake, and it posed "no risk."

The earthquake was felt as far away as the Aegean province of , the northwestern provinces of  and İstanbul, and even the city of , not far from the Bulgarian and Greek and borders, because the depth was very shallow. More than 18,000 people died following two earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 7.0 in northwestern Turkey in 1999.