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A 35-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday evening in northwest on charges of spreading false news, after posting video on her Instagram account claiming that scores of people had died – and were unreported – in a flood-ravaged town in the Thessaly plain.

The holidays of a couple from Heraklion who had camped on the beach of the town of Rethymnon resulted in tragedy when the man and woman tried to save their two children from drowning.

A magistrate and lead investigator of the Farmakonisi disaster, have ruled that the screening of a news investigative show could jeopardize the judicial investigation.