May 30, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Workers at the Perama Shipyard Repair Zone have called a 24-hour strike and rally at the main gate of Perama on Tuesday following the accident which resulted in the death of a 47-year-old crane vehicle operator and the serious injuries of two workers. The accident occurred during operations to extract …
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March 27, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The chief traffic manager at the Greek Railways Organization (OSE), Konstantinos Chrysagis, died following a motorcycle crash on Sunday. The 66-year-old died instantly on the spot. he was a key person in investigations for the deadly train collision in Tempi. According to traffic police, the accident took place at the …
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January 4, 2023
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Greek composer Notis Mavroudis died late on Tuesday following a tragic accident in his holiday home in Koukourava village in Makrinista on Mt Pilio. He was 77 years old. According to local media, Mavroudis he was fixing something on the balcony railing late on Tuesday, when he lost his balance …
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October 24, 2022
Society, Very Mix
An elderly woman, her co-passenger and a motorcyclist died on Monday, when the woman entered the Athens-Corinth highway in the wrong direction. According to local media korinthostv, a car driven by an elderly woman entered the National Highway in the direction of Korinthos and collided with a motorcycle. The traffic …
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June 24, 2022
Arts, Culture
One person was slightly injured as 8 people found themselves in the water, when two speedboats collided during the shooting of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.”and one of them capsized. The accident occurred around 10 o’ clock Friday morning, in the sea area off Palaia Fokia in south-east Attica. …
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May 16, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Unprecedentedly tragic accident:: An automatic dumpster crushed the body of a man in the center of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece at Monday noon. The man was looking inside the dumpster when the compactor mechanism was activated and closed automatically thus trapping and crushing his body. Fire service staff and paramedics …
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April 20, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A paratrooper of the Greek Armed Forces remained hanging in the air outside a C-130 at a height of 5,000 feet for several minutes after his parachute failed to open during an exercise in Cyprus. The unprecedented incident took place during an exercise in Larnaka and a tragedy was averted …
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November 18, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Strikes, Very Mix
Urban Rail Transport SA (STASY) employees will hold a work stoppage from 11:00 to 14:00 on Friday, November 19, in order to attend the funeral of their colleague, who was killed in a workplace accident on Tuesday. The Athens metro and tram systems will come to a standstill in order …
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November 18, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
An F-16 fighter jet of the Greek Air Force crashed in the military air base of Andravida in western Peloponnese on Thursday afternoon. The pilot successfully ejected from the plane before the crash and was in “good health,” preliminary reports from the scene said. The accident occurred at 3:49 p.m. …
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November 16, 2021
Very Mix
One worker at the Urban Train ISAP died and two workers were injured when the maintenance wagon collided with a train early morning Tuesday. Due to a breaks failure the rail grinder was reportedly running on the track with a speed of over 50 km per hour. The workers were …
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November 2, 2021
Uncategorized
Α well-known Greek marathon-runner died in a horrible traffic accident on Tuesday morning, when her bike was hit and carried away by a truck at a crossroads in Thessaloniki. The cyclist was 42-year-old marathon-runner and triathlon athlete Dimitra Iordanidou. Eye witnesses told local media that the woman was cycling on Grigoriou …
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March 14, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A security car registered to an MP of ruling New Democracy has been involved in a serious traffic accident with a motorcycle outside the Parliament on Friday. Seriously injured was a 23-year-old young man who is now on mechanical support and is considered as “brain dead.” Minutes after the accident, …
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August 5, 2020
Very Mix
Seven people were killed and five were injured early Wednesday morning when a vehicle crashed into the concrete base of a toll booth under construction on the Egnatia Odos highway, in Ardanio, northeastern Greece. The accident occurred on a road section near the town of Alexandroupolis. Police was informed about …
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May 18, 2020
animals
Two bear cubs have been found dead and buried in a farm plot in the lakeside area between Polykarpis and Fotini, by Kastoria, northern Greece. The cubs were killed by a car. But who buried them? Most likely it was the mama bear, say members of emergency response team of …
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November 6, 2019
Economy
An explosion in the state-run mining and metallurgical enterprise LARCO killed a worker, a 55-year-old father of three. The accident comes a day after the LARCO workers’ union denounced “lack of safety measures.” The accident took place in the company’s plant in Larymna, the port town in Fthiotis, Central Greece, …
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October 24, 2019
Very Mix
One tourist died and two others were injured, one of them seriously, when an all-terrain vehicle ATV collided with a private car on the island of Mykonos on early afternoon Thursday. The fatal accident occurred on the road between Chora and the Airport. According to local media, dead is a …
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August 27, 2019
Refugees
Six migrants were killed and ten were injured when a smuggling jeep carrying them through northern Greece crashed into an irrigation ditch. The accident occurred on Monday evening outside the village of Loutra near the northeastern town of Alexandroupolis that is close to the Turkish border. According to local media, …
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July 18, 2019
Very Mix
The pilot of a single engine aircraft was slightly injured during an emergency landing at a rural road off the Egnatia highway near Grevena, West Macedonia, short before 9 o’ clock on Thursday morning. Slightly injured are also the two passenger on board of the Cessna. The Cessna with two …
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July 12, 2019
Tourism
It was a wrong handling and the Sky Express that was about to take off from the airport of Naxos landed … in a ditch next to the runway. The accident occurred at 5:30 Friday afternoon and the airport had to be closed for safety reasons. None of the 47 …
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May 31, 2019
Very Mix
The winner of Greek reality show “Power of Love I” Panos Zarlas was killed on a traffic accident he had with his motorcycle. Tragic irony: the 28-year-old was killed on the day of his birthday. Zarlas was driving on Syggrou Avenue at 2 o’ clock Friday morning when his probably …
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