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The epicentre of
the magnitude 6 quake was 13 km (8 miles) west of Lefkada in the
Ionian Sea, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said.
Police said a 59-year-old woman had been killed when her house
collapsed after being struck by a falling rock in the seaside
village of Ponti.
A local resident said a second woman had been crushed to death
in a stable in the mountain village of Athani. Police could not
confirm her death.
"There is a dead woman, the stable fell over her and we are
still trying to recover her body under the rubble," Nikos
Rombotis, 61, owner of a gift shop in the village, told Reuters
by phone.
The quake also damaged the main road in the southwestern part of
the island.
The U.S. Geological Survey registered the quake as magnitude
6.5.
(Reporting by Lefteris Karagiannopoulos and Angeliki Koutantou;
Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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