The recent attacks by organised anarchist groups and masked hooligans against police stations in Athens and Thessaloniki have become a major point of political contention with opposition parties accusing the Greek Ministry of Citizens’ Protection of total incompetence.

A fire broke out in the engine compartment of a bus on the line serving the Piraeus suburb of Nikaia shortly before seven in the morning.

Today's storm caught Athenians, and authorities, once again, unprepared. In Nikaia, a suburb of Piraeus, the stream traversing the suburb flooded and swept away cars, flooding the suburb, with images presenting scenes of biblical destruction.