Arena bomb survivors in quake terror

A MOTHER and daughter were caught up in the deadly earthquake on the Greek island of Kos – just weeks after escaping the bomb attack at Manchester Arena.

Julie McKay, 45, and her daughter Nieve, 14, were among thousands of survivors left traumatised after the bomber murdered 22 people on May 22 at the Ariana Grande concert.

Now they have found themselves involved in the terrifying quake which killed two people and left more than 360 injured.

Nieve’s sister, Natalie, 19, who was with her mum and sister, said they were woken in the early hours by their hotel room shaking.

Natalie told the M.E.N.’s sister paper the Daily Record: “They were involved in the Manchester attack. They were near the main entrance when it happened and they ran away from it.

“This was meant to be a relaxing holiday for them.

“We had just gone to bed around 1.30am. The earthquake threw me out of my bed.

“I woke up screaming. So did my mum and my sister. We ran into the hallway – a big chandelier had fallen to the floor.

“There were around 300 people standing outside and there was rubble all over the place.”

Last month Julie told the M.E.N. how surviving the Arena attack had affected her. She said: “I can’t stop crying. I get really upset if I hear sirens or loud bangs, and I panic in a crowd.

“I then get angry because some crazy man did this to us all and changed our lives forever.”

Julie and the girls, who are from Glasgow, were in a hotel just outside Kos town when the 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck.

A huge chandelier crashed to the floor in Julie and Nieve’s hotel.

Thousands of British holidaymakers have desperately been trying to get flights to leave the island.

Tens of thousands of tourists on Kos, and in the nearby Turkish resort of Bodrum, have spent the nights since the quake outdoors in case of aftershocks.

The men killed, a 27-year-old Swede and a Turkish man aged 39, were in a popular bar in Kos town when the roof collapsed.

Greek officials said 12 people had serious injuries, including Norwegian, Swedish and Turkish holidaymakers. One person was critically ill and a Swedish person had lost a leg.

Four casualties were taken to hospital in Crete while three went to Athens.

The historic mosque in Kos town was among the buildings badly damaged.

Officials said 360 people were injured and 70 of them needed hospital treatment. The Turkish government sent a ferry to Kos to evacuate 200 citizens.

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