A man who has been seriously wounded by a slab of falling marble is given medical attention by a doctor and passers-by.

Rescue workers carry a body away from a collapsed two-storey apartment block in the northwestern suburb of Menidi.

Firefighters and volunteers search through the rubble of a kitchen appliances factory.

Alexandros Tsironis hugs his five-year-old daughter Sophia after being rescued from their home in a five-storey apartment building.

Prime Minister Costas Simitis declared the capital an emergency danger zone but damage has not been as extensive as in the Turkish earthquake.

Meanwhile, residents of Athens queued outside public phone booths to call anxious relatives.