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Twenty eight foreigners, 14 men and 12 women, were arrested by police at the international airports of Chania and Heraklion in Crete on Monday for attempting to travel abroad with fake travel documents.

An urgent preliminary examination of the content of the publication that spoke of a major earthquake in Crete was ordered yesterday by the prosecutor of Herakleion, Thanasis Galinas.

Tourism accounts for over 50% of GDP in the regions Crete, the south Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea islands, according to a report by Sete Intelligence of the Greek Tourism Confederation.