Three elementary school children were injured on Friday morning when plasters detached from the school ceiling and fell on the young pupils in an Athens neighborhood. Everything happened at the 149th Primary School of Petralona during the second break. Suddenly, a large piece of plaster fell from the ceiling of …
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Fire fronts burn in 7 regions in Greece; villages evacuated, houses burned, firefighters injured
Dozens of fire fronts are burning forests, houses, animal farms and agricultural land across Greece on Monday and hundreds of firefighters are battling the flames. Villages and settlements have been evacuated and roads have been closed to traffic. The worst enemy of the firefighters are the powerful winds blowing with …
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Earthquake: Tourist with serious leg injuries in Samaria gorge taken to hospital
The 45-year-old Spanish tourist, who suffered serious leg injuries during a hike in Samaria Gorge after the earthquake in Chania, was rescued and transferred to the local hospital. The man was injured when parts of a rock fell on him following the earthquake that stroke with 4.9 Richter on Sunday …
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Fire in Velestino out of control, heading to Volos; one firefighter injured
A fire in Velestino, Magnisia Prefecture, is out of control due to strong winds and is heading toward the city of Volos in the east due to powerful winds, just two hours after it broke out on Wednesday afternoon. Within an hour after it broke out short before 4 p.m. …
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Part of bridge in Patras collapses: Dead, injured, people trapped in rubble
A road bridge in Patras partially collapsed early afternoon Sunday. At least, two people have killed, several people have been injured and and unknown number trapped under the rubble. The part that collapsed in Mpozaitika area was some 40 meters long. The bridge in was undergoing maintenance work for the …
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Over 23 firefighters injured during the wildfires in Greece in the last days
23 professional firefighters and three volunteers have been injured in the several wildfires that have been burning in Greece since last Sunday. 3 firefighters are hospitalized with burn injuries, while 20 remain in hospital with respiratory problems. One firefighter collapsed on Wednesday during the battle against the flames near Megara …
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Seeking for a CT scan, an injured child was taken from hospital to hospital
An injured child was transferred from hospital to hospital for several hours until a CT scanner was found to examine the cause of ears bleeding. This unbelievable incident took place in Greece’s second big city Thessaloniki on Sunday. A 6-year-old boy suffered a head injury after he fell with with …
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Sudan: Dramatic hours for Greeks trapped in Church; two injured
A group of Greeks have been trapped in a church in Khartoum since Holy Saturday morning as the capital of Sudan is in the middle of heavy fight between the government and paramilitary groups. Two Greeks were injured when they left the church on Saturday. They are in hospital but …
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12-year-old sex-trafficking victim attacked and injured in her home
The 12-year-old girl that was raped and pimped by a 53-year-old man was injured in a knife attack in the home where she lives with her aunt and a younger brother, her lawyer revealed on Monday. In a different statement, the mother of the 12-year-old victim points out that the …
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Greece Train Collision: 36 dead, 66 injured, many still missing (videos)
At least 36 people have been killed, 66 injured and many are missing still hours after high-speed passenger train IC 62 with 352 people on board collided with a freight train coming from the opposite direction. Firefighters, army units, rescuers, police are struggling to locate passengers under the tons of …
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12 injured when bus crashes on private car in downtown Athens
A traffic accident occurred between a public bus and a private vehicle injured twelve people in downtown Athens on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred around 8:15 a.m. at the junction of Vasilissis Sofias and Soutsou avenues in the center of Athens. According to the police, a bus on the Palaio …
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December traffic accidents in Attica: 13 dead, 603 injured
A total of 13 people died and another 603 were injured in 511 traffic accidents in December in the Attica, Attica Region traffic police headquarters said on Tuesday. Of the 603 injured, 13 were severely injured and 590 lightly so. According to the traffic police, the main causes of accidents …
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Four students injured when stage at Piraeus Municipality Theater collapses
Four students were injured when a part of the wooden stage of the Municipality theater of Piraeus collapsed during a rehearsal on Monday afternoon. Dozens of children were at the theater watching the rehearsal by students from the local Music School Ensembles for a concert later in the evening. The …
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Campus shooting in Athens: Civilian, police officer injured
One civilian and one police officer were injured in a shooting incident in the campus of Technology University in Zopgrafou suburb of Athens on Tuesday morning. According to preliminary information obtained by state broadcaster ERT, one of the injured is a 30-year-old man of Albanian nationality who has wounds in …
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Elderly shoots at minors in his home yard, injures two
A 70-year-old man shot and injured two minors who had entered the yard of his home. The boys, aged 14 and 16, are in hospital with injuries in the eye and the leg. The incident took place in Alepochori, western Attica, on Thursday night. The man took his rifle and …
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One race athlete dead, one seriously injured when lightning strikes in N. Greece
One athlete was killed and another was seriously injured when a lightning struck participants of the Six Peaks Night Mountain Race on mountain Falakro in northern Greece in the early hours of Sunday. A third athlete survived with hypothermia, while the fourth athlete in the group, a woman, escaped the …
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Athens Fire: 45 citizens in hospitals, one with serious burn injuries
The number of citizens from the fire fronts areas in North-East Athens who have been transferred to hospitals of the Greek capital rose to 45 on Wednesday evening, media reported. Among them are three people with burn injuries, one of them is in serious condition. The majority of hospital admission …
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Skiathos: British tourist suffers brain injuries, knocked down by plane blast
A British tourist suffered brain injuries when the turbine blast from an airplane knocked her to the ground. The plane was taking off from the airport of Skiathos. The incident occurred less than a month when the blast of another airplane blew an elderly man into the sea, and triggered …
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Shipwreck with over 100 migrants off Mykonos; injured, missing (video)
A big Search And Rescue operation has been launched by the Greek Coast Guard after it was alerted on a shipwreck with over 100 migrants on board of a sailing boat carrying them from Turkey to Europe via Greece. According to preliminary reports, there are injured passengers and at least …
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Thessaloniki Fire: Two intubated, 11 injured, dozens evacuated (video)
Over 44 people were evacuated, eleven people have been rushed to hospitals and two have been intubated after a big fire broke out in the building housing the Thessaloniki Chamber of Industry, on Aristotelous Square in the center of the city in northern Greece. The fire broke out short before …
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