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Two teenagers also died on the Greek island of Samos after a wall fell.
Health authorities said at least 19 people were injured on the island, including two, one of whom was 14 years old, who were flown to Athens and 7 to the island’s hospital.
It should be noted that the Department of Disaster and Emergency Management said that the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.6, according to the Richter scale, and that its epicenter was at a depth of about 16 kilometers.
The earthquake was felt by residents of the eastern Greek islands in addition to the Mediterranean island of Crete and the Greek capital Athens and some parts of Bulgaria, while it was also felt by residents of Turkish Istanbul, whose governor said that there were no reports of damage in the city, which is the largest in Turkey.
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Turkish reports indicated that the death toll from the strong earthquake that struck the Aegean Sea rose to 25, while the number rescued from under the rubble rose to 100.
Rescue teams in Izmir, Turkey’s third most populous city, reportedly rescued several people from the rubble of 8 buildings that collapsed in the strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake and triggered partial tsunamis, followed of many aftershocks.
Earlier Saturday, onlookers cheered as teenager Ince Okan was rescued from the rubble of a destroyed 8-story apartment building, as friends and family waited outside the building to hear from loved ones still trapped inside. including the staff of a dentist’s office. On the ground floor.
Two other women, ages 53 to 35, were rescued from another collapsed two-story building in Izmir, according to the Associated Press.
According to Turkey’s Presidency of Emergency and Disaster Management, the earthquake killed at least 24 people in Izmir, including an elderly woman who drowned, knowing that the number of buildings damaged and collapsed by the earthquake reached at least 17 buildings.
Two teenagers also died on the Greek island of Samos after a wall fell.
Health authorities said at least 19 people were injured on the island, including two, one of whom was 14 years old, who were flown to Athens and 7 to the island’s hospital.
It should be noted that the Department of Disaster and Emergency Management said the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.6, according to the Richter scale, and that its epicenter was at a depth of about 16 kilometers.
The earthquake was felt by residents of the eastern Greek islands as well as the Mediterranean island of Crete and the Greek capital Athens and some parts of Bulgaria, while it was also felt by residents of Turkish Istanbul, whose governor said that there were no reports of damage in the city, which is the largest in Turkey.
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