Deadly earthquake in Turkey and Greece killed over 25 people while injured 800

Rescue teams have ploughed through cement stones and the wreckage of eight fallen structures on Saturday in the research of descendants of a strong earthquake that hit Turkey’s Aegean coast and north of the Greek isle of Samos on Friday, killing at least 25 people.

More than 800 people were wounded from the earthquake that tumbled structures in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city, and triggered a small tsunami in the region of Seferihisar and on Samos.

The quake, which the Kandilli Institute stated had a measure of 6.9, struck at 2.51 pm (11:51 GMT) in Turkey. Its epicentre was in the Aegean northeast of Samos.

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, or AFAD stated that the tremor was followed by more than 400 aftershocks, according to.

Early on Saturday, onlookers encouraged as rescuers lifted a teenager out of the rubble of a destructive eight-storey residence building.

Friends and relatives remained outside the building for news of loved ones still confined, including workers of a dentist’s surgery that was positioned on the ground floor.

Two other women were rescued from another fallen two-storey building.

AFAD stated that at least 24 people were killed in Izmir, including an elderly woman who sank.

Two teenagers were killed on Samos after being beaten by a collapsing wall. At least 19 people were wounded on the island, with two, including a 14-year-old, transported to Athens and seven hospitalised on the island, health officials stated.

The small tsunami that hit the Turkish coast also impacted Samos, with seawater flooding roads in the central harbour town of Vathi.

Officials advised people to visit away from the coast and from potentially damaged buildings.

Officials told Al Jazeera at least seven homes were damaged while almost ten were in danger of falling.

Around 1,500 officers are included in the search-and-rescue operation that has now been taking place for 22 hours.

In Izmir, more than 20 people are feared to be under the rubble. The city’s residents spent Friday night in tents and their cars.