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A Turkish and a Swedish National Killed in Kos Earthquake

Kos fire service rescue chief Stephanos Kolokouris has confirmed to Greek state television that the two people killed on the island were from Turkey and Sweden.

Sinan Kurdoglu

Turkey’s deputy prime minister has named the Turkish national killed in the earthquake as Sinan Kurdoglu. He provided no further details.
Kolokouris said both were tourists and died after a wall collapsed on to a bar in Kos old town close to the island’s main port.
A 39-year-old Turk and a 27-year-old Swede were standing outside the White Corner bar on Nafklirou Street in Kos, when the quake struck.
According to reports, they were standing directly underneath a wall that collapsed onto the pavement. They died from falling debris.
Other people standing outside the two-storey bar were injured.
One of five people seriously injured was Greek, he said, but he did not give details of the other four.
Greek media is reporting that five people, three of whom have been “seriously injured,” have been flown by Chinook helicopter from Kos to Crete for treatment.
Emergency services have rushed them to the island’s main University general hospital in Heraklion.
One of the injured is said to have suffered what are being described as “very severe injuries” to both legs. A hospital spokesman said that doctors had to amputate one of the legs.
The strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hit at 1:32 off the Turkish coast North of Rhodes and East of Kos. The sea level on Kos rose after the quake flooding areas of the island.

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