Rescue workers today pull a man from the rubble of a collapsed hotel in the province of Van in eastern Turkey. Rescuers saved more than two dozen people from the remains of three buildings there following another deadly earthquake.

VAN, Turkey — Rescue workers with pickaxes and earth-movers searched today for survivors of an earthquake that leveled a downtown hotel in the same Turkish province that was hit by a deadly temblor last month. At least eight people, including a Japanese aid worker, were killed in the new quake.

Some 26 people were rescued in overnight digging in the provincial capital of Van in eastern Turkey. Some of those trapped in the rubble were foreign aid workers and Turkish journalists working in the aftermath of the powerful quake on Oct. 23 that killed about 600 people.

The Bayram Hotel survived that magnitude-7.2 quake with some cracks and a damaged elevator. But it toppled in Wednesday’s magnitude-5.7 quake, trapping an undetermined number of people under tons of concrete and twisted metal in a grim replay of the earlier destruction.

The quake knocked down 25 buildings in Van, but only two buildings, both hotels, were occupied because others were evacuated after the first quake, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said.

Turkey’s Anatolia agency said Atsushi Miyazaki, of the Association for Aid and Relief, Japan, died in a hospital after he was dug out from the rubble of the Bayram Hotel today. Rescue workers performed CPR on Miyazaki for about 15 minutes before taking him to the hospital in serious condition.

His 32-year-old female colleague, Miyuki Konnai, was rescued alive from the wreckage of the same hotel late Wednesday.

Ikuko Natori, overseas operations manager of the AAR Japan, said Konnai was in stable condition.

Rescuers pulled at least two more people from the same wreckage earlier today.

Two reporters from Turkey’s Dogan news agency, Sebahattin Yilmaz and Cem Emir, were still believed to be trapped in the hotel debris.

“The quake happened as our colleagues were trying to file their stories in the hotel’s lobby,” Dogan said.

Recep Salci, a member of the search and rescue group Akut, said sniffer dogs had indicated that more survivors might be under the rubble.

Some trapped journalists had sent text messages to colleagues asking to be rescued, Ozgur Gunes, a cameraman for Turkey’s Cihan news agency, told Haber Turk television on Wednesday.

He had left the hotel before the quake, but rushed back to collect his camera after it struck, only to find that the building toppled.

“There was dust everywhere and the hotel was flattened,” he said.