Two new fire fronts in the Peloponnese and in Zakynthos island
A fire broke out in a forest area in Goumero village at Ilias, Peloponnese on Sunday afternoon. Another broke out in a forest region at Keri in Zakynthos island the same day.
A fire broke out in a forest area in Goumero village at Ilias, Peloponnese on Sunday afternoon. Another broke out in a forest region at Keri in Zakynthos island the same day.
Larissa in central Greece continued to prepare for more flooding from the overflow of Pinios River on Sunday.
Two more bodies were found in Karditsa on Sunday, raising the death toll from the floods in central Greece to 14. Three individuals are still missing.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to visit the flood-stricken area of Thessaly on Sunday afternoon.
“Poor Things”, a gothic, sex-charged comedy directed by Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos, won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
Referring to the catastrophic Daniel storm, prominent professor of dynamic tectonic applied geology and disaster management Efthymios Lekkas described it as “an extreme natural once-in-a-millennium phenomenon.”
A tourist bus crashed with two cars on a national road near the municipality of Paionia in North Greece on Sunday morning. Three individuals lost their lives and many have been injured.
Three out of four crew members of the “Blue Horizon” ferry transferred to a prosecutor on Sunday to testify on the death of the 36-year-old passenger Antonis Kariotis.
The body of a missing 77-year-old man was found on Saturday, raising the death toll from floods in central Greece to 11, authorities said. The number of missing increased to six, but there could be more.
Concerns were raised at the weekend in flooded areas of Thessaly over reports of looting of homes and properties.