"The people of Patras with their vote today ensured that the municipality will stay in the people's hands", stated the re-elected mayor of Patras Costas Peletidis, after his sweeping victory in the second round of local administration elections on Sunday.

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale struck at 14.37 in the wider area of Patras in northern Peloponnese.

Two men aged 42 and 22 years old have been arrested by Western Achaia police on charges of stealing valuables from a church and were due to go before a Patras public prosecutor on Sunday.