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WORLD NEWS Saturday 22 July 2017

2 dead, 500 hurt as deadly quake rattles Greece, Turkey

and stayed out all night.” people freezing and then
Two men — from Turkey running out, pushing,” said
and Sweden — were killed Linda Lundgren, who works
when a collapsing wall at a nearby bar.
smashed into White Cor- “I saw every bartender
ner Club, a popular a bar jumping over the bar. I was
in the Old Town of Kos. Sev- like getting the roof out of
eral others were seriously in- my head because it was
jured and airlifted to larger falling and then we came
hospitals in Greece — one out and I was like trying to
person had to have a leg find my staff and every-
amputated and another thing just turned black,”
had life-threatening head she said. The quake came
injuries, doctors said. in the midst of Greece and
Many of the other injuries Turkey’s vital summer tour-
occurred when tourists and ism industry. Afterward,
residents scrambled out of many people spent the
buildings and even leapt night outside, sleeping on
from balconies. Hundreds sunbeds and at cafes.
of revelers were in the White Most of injuries, about 350,
Corner Club at the time. “It occurred in Turkey, in Bo-
was shaking a bit, and I was drum and other beach re-
like ‘OK.’ Then everything. sorts, as people fled build-
I saw the bar just floating ings and as the sea swell
around and drinks flying flung cars off the road and
all over the place. I saw pushed boats ashore.q
Rubble sit outside a bar where two people have been killed after
an earthquake in Kos on the island of Kos, Greece Friday, July
21, 2017. Greek authorities said two tourists killed in the overnight
quake are from Turkey and Sweden.
(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

By SYLVAIN PLAZY dersea quake that caused
COSTAS KANTOURIS a two-foot (0.6-meter) sea
Associated Press swell and havoc among
KOS, Greece (AP) — A residents and thousands
powerful earthquake shook of vacationers at bars and
beach resorts Friday in restaurants.
Greece and Turkey, killing The U.S. Geological survey
two tourists crushed when measured the quake as
a building collapsed on a being of magnitude 6.7,
bar in the Greek island of with Greek and Turkish esti-
Kos and injuring nearly 500 mates a fraction lower.
others across the Aegean “It was shocking, terrifying,”
Sea region. Kos resident Vassilis Megas
Only a few miles apart, Kos told The Associated Press.
and the Turkish resort of Bo- “The whole house shook
drum were hit hours before back and forth. People ran
dawn by the shallow un- out into streets. We did too,