(Reuters) -One person was killed on Sunday when an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northwestern Turkey's Balikesir province, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, adding 29 people were wounded and 16 buildings collapsed.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Turkey’s northwestern province of Balikesir, killing at least one person and causing about a dozen buildings to collapse.

A strong, 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Turkey on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 7:53 p.m. Eastern European time about 7 miles southwest of Bigadiç, Turkey, data from the agency shows.