Death toll from Turkish earthquake rises to 35

35 people are now known to have died in an earthquake in central Turkey.

Tremors toppled dozens of buildings, injuring more than 100 and sending terrified residents leaping from their homes.

The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0.

Worst hit was the village of Sultandagi, where at least 15 people died.

In the neighbouring village of Cay, 11 people were crushed to death.

One person died in Bolvadin in a collapsed house and another person died of a heart attack in the neighbouring city of Konya, where seven people were injured from jumping from windows and balconies, state television said.

Eight people were still buried under the debris of a collapsed house in Sultandagi, seven miles south of Bolvadin, said Hayrettin Barut, mayor of the provincial capital of Afyon.

In villages around the area, the carcasses of animals lay amid the stones of collapsed barns and one-story homes, while fires blazed in few houses. In Bolvadin, the minarets of several mosques had collapsed.

Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit appeared on national television to warn residents to stay away from damaged homes and then set off for the region.