Greece: Quake kills two, sends island tourists into panic
ATHENS, Greece — A powerful earthquake sent a building crashing down on tourists at a bar on the Greek holiday island of Kos and struck panic on the nearby shores of Turkey early Friday, killing two people and injuring more than a hundred.
Rescue authorities said two men from Turkey and Sweden died in the collapse as the 6.5-magnitude quake about 1:30 a.m. Friday rattled Greek islands and the Turkish Aegean coast in a region where quake are common.
The dead vacationers were not named.
At least five other people were seriously injured on Kos as tourists and local residents scrambled out of buildings, some even leaping from balconies. Five of the injured were being transported by helicopter to a hospital on the island of Crete, officials said.