ATHENS — A powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed two tourists on the Greek island of Kos early Friday morning and injured dozens of other people, several seriously, the Greek police said.
The quake also caused scores of injuries and property damage, including flooding, in the Turkish resort of Bodrum.
There were different estimates of the magnitude of the tremor, which was centered between Kos and the nearby Aegean coast of Turkey. The Institute of Geodynamics at the National Observatory of Athens put it at 6.4, while the Kandilli Observatory in Istanbul put it at 6.6.
It struck at 1.30 a.m. local time, when many visitors to Kos, a popular summer holiday destination, had been out enjoying a night out.Two men — a 22-year-old Swede and a 39-year-old Turk — died when the White Corner, a bar in which they were drinking in the old town, partially collapsed, according to Petros Vasilakis, a Greek police spokesman for the southern Aegean region.
Dozens more were injured, seven seriously, according to Mr. Vasilakis, who said that some of those affected were Greeks and some were tourists. He added that one man had lost his legs. Military helicopters moved the seriously injured to hospitals on the nearby islands of Rhodes and Crete, and in Athens.
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