Live: Turkey earthquake - Rescuers race against time to save victims trapped in rubble

Rescuers raced against the clock Saturday to save people buried under rubble as hundreds spent a terrifying night in tents after a powerful earthquake claimed 28 lives in Turkey and Greece.

The 7.0 magnitude quake killed 26 people and injured more than 800 in Turkey after striking on Friday afternoon near the west coast town of Seferihisar in Izmir province.

Also killing two teenagers on their way home from school in Greece, it caused a mini-tsunami on the Aegean island of Samos and a sea surge that turned streets into rushing rivers in one Turkish coastal town.

In Bayrakli, Turkish families and friends looked on in agony, exhaustion and hope as workers painstakingly went through the rubble of two completely flattened buildings.

Just five minutes across town, worried crowds watched as a black bag was taken away from another collapsed building in the early hours of Saturday.

A HUGE earthquake has rocked Turkey as it destroyed scores of buildings and triggered a tsunami that swept through coastal towns.

The quake registered a magnitude of 7.0 with its epicentre 11 miles north of the island of Greek island Samos.

The enormous tremor was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul, the US Geological survey said.

At least eight people were killed - including one who drowned in the tidal waves - while more than 202 people were injured, according to Turkish state media.

Six were killed in Izmir, while two teenagers died on Samos after walls collapsed.

At least 20 buildings in Izmir, a Turkish city with a population of 4.4million, are said to have been destroyed, Mayor Tunc Soyer told CNN Turk.

Tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and nearby Greek islands swept a flood of debris inland and left fish stranded as they receded.

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