The number of dead Swedes who have been identified following the Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe now stands at 515. All of their relatives have been informed.
The police’s list of missing or dead people remains at 543, with 28 still to be identified.
So far, ten people whose bodies have not been found have been declared dead by a special committee at the tax office. Relatives of some of the other 18 people have applied to have them declared dead.
The applications will be dealt with in the autumn.
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A Swedish man was one of the people killed when a violent earthquake hit Greek island Kos, Sweden's foreign ministry has confirmed.
A second person killed was named as Turkish national Sinan Kurdoglu by Turkey's deputy prime minister, according to news agency the Associated Press. The men died when the roof of a bar collapsed in Kos, The Guardian reports.
The 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Greek island and Turkish tourist resort Bodrum in the early hours of Friday. Greek officials said around 200 people were injured, at least 120 on Kos and 70 in Turkey. Sweden's foreign ministry has confirmed that Swedes are among the injured.
The epicentre of the earthquake, which struck at around 1.30am local time, was 10 kilometres south of Bodrum and 16 kilometres north-east of Kos which was the worst hit, reports The Guardian.
A toppled column in Kos after the earthquake. Photo: Michael Probst/AP
“I'm still in shock,” Isak Bergh from Västerås told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, explaining that paintings and mirrors fell from the walls of the hotel he was in and the power was lost.
Another reader described the scene at Rhodes airport.
“I laid on the floor and started to shake around,” Brian Ramirez explained.
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