Severe weather causes three fatalities; one person missing
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Three people are dead in Messinia and a person is missing in Thessaloniki, is so far the toll of the severe weather disaster affecting the country and according to forecasts will continue.
As it became known from the Fire Brigade, a 63 year old disabled person and a 80 year old woman in the city of Kalamata, were recovered dead from flooded basements, while a 90 year old was found dead at his home in Thouria, which however was not flooded and it is believed that he probably died from another cause.
In Thessaloniki, in the area of Michaniona searches made by rescuers to locate a missing 60-year for which her husband said he lost contact with. The car of the woman was found at a gas station with the hazard warning lights on, but she remains unseen.
The Fire Department and the whole state apparatus is fully alert, mainly in western Greece, Messinia, Central Macedonia and Thessaly, where phenomena are mainly located, while in Kalamata, 20 pumps from Athens and 12 from Tripoli have been relocated for pumping water out of flooded buildings.
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