Earthquake in Aegean Sea Kills 2 Tourists<br />By NIKI KITSANTONISJULY 21, 2017<br />ATHENS — A powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed two tourists on the Greek island of Kos early Friday<br />and injured dozens of other people, several seriously, the Greek police said.<br />Two men — a 22-year-old Swede and a 39-year-old Turk — died when the White Corner, a bar in which they had been drinking in<br />the old town, partially collapsed, according to Petros Vasilakis, a Greek police spokesman for the southern Aegean region.<br />Turkish television images, replayed on Greek channels, showed damage to roads and people waiting on the streets on the Turkish side, while reports indicated<br />that a small number of people there had suffered minor injuries.<br />In comments to the Greek television channel Skai, Mr. Santorinios said residential areas had<br />largely been unaffected by the quake, with damage concentrated in and around the old town.<br />The extent of the damage caused by the earthquake was unclear, but it did not appear to have leveled as many buildings as a similarly strong temblor<br />that hit the island of Lesbos, in the northern Aegean, last month.<br />The quake also caused scores of injuries and property damage, including flooding, in the Turkish resort city of Bodrum.
