Magnitude 6.5 quake jolts Greece and Turkey

Tourists and residents on the Greek island of Kos find rubble-strewn streets and damaged buildings the morning after a strong earthquake struck the region.

(Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP/Getty Images)

July 21, 2017 7:44 AM PT

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A powerful overnight earthquake shook holiday resorts in Greece and Turkey, leaving hundreds of people injured and at least two tourists dead on the Greek island of Kos, where revelers at a bar were crushed in a building collapse.

A pier at the main port on the Greek island of Kos was cracked apart by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck the region.

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Emergency workers attend to a person injured in an earthquake on the Greek island of Kos.

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Tourists wait outside the airport terminal on the island of Kos on July 21, 2017, after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the region.

(Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP/Getty Images)

The remains of a bar where two people were killed when the earthquake struck Kos.

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A church damaged in the earthquake on the Greek island of Kos.

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A man looks at a jumble of damaged boats lifted ashore and left on a beach when a small tsunami caused by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit Bodrum, Turkey.

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