'Let's get the hell out of here' - quake off Greece and Turkey kills two
A powerful earthquake killed two people on the Greek holiday island of Kos in the early hours of Friday, sending tourists fleeing into the streets, and causing disruption in the nearby Turkish tourist hub of Bodrum.
A Turkish and a Swedish tourist, aged 39 and 22 years, died when the roof of a popular bar collapsed, Greek police said. Kos's port was put out of action and, across the strait, a small tsunami damaged vehicles parked near Bodrum's shore.
On Kos, around 115 people were injured, including tourists of various nationalities - 12 of them seriously. More than 350 people visited hospitals in Turkey, though most had only light injuries.
The quake struck at 1:31 a.m. (2231 GMT), and many of Kos's tourists spent the rest of the night in the open as a precaution, hotel owners said.
"All of a sudden it felt like a train was going right through the room,"...
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