4 March 2021 11:15am
Thousands of people spent the night outdoors late Wednesday after a powerful earthquake was felt across the region, damaging homes and public buildings.
The magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck at 12.16pm (local time) near the central city of Larissa and there was structural damage, mainly to old houses, as walls collapsed. One man was hurt by the falling debris but there were no serious injuries.
The 1938 stone-built school collapsed in Damasi as 63 students attended classes. “The teachers kept their cool and the pupils stuck to the emergency drill,” principal Grigoris Letsios sait on a video call with Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “The building will be condemned now. We’ll need a new school.”