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21 July 2017•Update: 22 July 2017
By Magda Panoutsopoulou and Yusuf Hatip
ATHENS
Senior European Union and Pakistani officials have expressed their condolences to the people affected in Greece and Turkey by the Friday morning earthquake in the Aegean Sea.
During the quake at least two people -- including one Turkish national -- were killed on the Greek island of Kos, which lies just off Turkey's southwest coast. Injuries and damage to buildings were reported on the island and in Turkey's western Aegean region.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini was meeting Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on Friday.
The two discussed the earthquake, and both expressed their condolences.
“Normality will be restored on the island of Kos,” Tsipras said, adding that Greece’s location in a geologically active zone means “we need to get familiar with this and overcome these difficulties”.
Mogherini expressed her solidarity with the Greek people, adding that the EU is at the Greek government’s disposal.
Christos Stylianides, EU commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management, earlier said the bloc’s emergency Copernicus satellite mapping system was available to help the authorities trying to deal with the quake.
Pakistan solidarity
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry also issued a solidarity message on the incident.
The statement said the Pakistani government and its people expressed their sincere condolences for the injured people and material damage caused by the quake.
The country also wished a quick recovery for those injured in the incident.
A Turkish citizen was among two people killed when the severe earthquake hit the Greek island of Kos in the early hours of Friday.
The dead man was identified by Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu as 39-year-old Sinan Kurtoglu from the Izmir province .
A second fatality of the 6.6-magnitude shock was a Swedish man, Greek South Aegean Governor Giorgos Hadjimarkou said in televised remarks.
Four Turkish nationals were injured, one of them seriously. However, none were in a life-threatening condition, a Foreign Ministry official said.
