A FATHER who fled his hotel room with his three-year-old daughter when an earthquake struck in Kos said his family were living in fear of being hit by another major tremor.

The Bolton News reported on Friday how Noel Boardman and his family were among holidaymakers on the Greek island caught up in the 6.7 earthquake in the early hours of Friday morning.

But two strong aftershocks shook the island again on Saturday, again forcing residents and tourists to flee from buildings in the fear they could collapse on top of them.

There have also been several smaller aftershocks and tremors.

Mr Boardman, from Blackrod, had gone out for evening with his family, including Emily, aged three, when the tremors struck.

He said: “When the evening came to a close we sat down to our evening meal and a nice cold pint then it happened again - measuring 4.7 on the scale - the earth shook and my drink and meal nearly flew off the table .

“So again I grabbed my daughter Emily and shouted to my partner and father-in-law and we all run out into the main square and waited for it to calm down.”

The family is mow sleeping with the doors open so they can get out quickly, and out to the swimming pool which is not close to any building that can collapse on it.

Mr Boardman added: “The feeling in Kos is there could be even a build up to an even bigger earthquake, it gets on your mind.I thought the drama was over , we had earthquakes all that first night until just after six in the morning – had five big ones, then the really big one and four aftershocks and smaller tremors.

“But every one you think this is it – take cover – or more like run from under cover.

It’s not turned out to be the holiday we expected, all we have had is a week of earthquakes.We are here doing our best and you just don’t know when there will be an earthquake, you don’t know when it’s going to strike.”

And he added that the Boxing Day tsunami of 13 years ago was also playing on his mind.

Before the big aftershocks hit Mr Boardman headed travelled across the island and sent The Bolton News pictures of the devastation he had seen.

He said: “We were all feeling a bit numb walking around and seeing all the cracks in the buildings and places where people had been killed.. “We had come out unscathed really, compared to a lot of other people.”