32 killed in Athens quake
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Your support makes all the difference.RESCUE TEAMS and residents were using everything from cranes to garden tools last night to dig for up to 120 people pinned under wreckage from the strongest earthquake to hit Athens in nearly a century.
The 10-second tremor claimed at least 32 lives.
Scenes of desperate searches and survivors too frightened to return indoors were sadly familiar: last month's quake in neighbouring Turkey moved many Greeks to put aside their historical enmity with Turks and mobilise aid.
Most of the damage and casualties were concentrated in working-class and immigrant areas north of Athens.
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