July 21, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 22-year-old British tourist has been admitted to the intensive care unit in Zakynthos General Hospital after being severely beaten in the island’s port area. The young man received multiple blows to the head and was taken to hospital with serious head and brain injuries. He was intubated. This latest …
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June 28, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Port authorities in Halkidiki are investigating the cause of death of a 64-year-old German tourist who was found dead in the sea off the coast of Ouranoupolis on Monday afternoon. The body had signs of injuries in the head and the abdomen. The body was found by another swimmer who …
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May 19, 2022
weather
A bad weather front sweeping across Greece with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms and powerful winds since Wednesday evening has led to the injuries of three adults and one child as well as to material damages. A 7-year-old boy was injured when the iron garden door in relatives house collapsed in …
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March 6, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
At least fifteen people were injured in a car crash involving more than 50 vehicles on Egnatia highway on Sunday. The pile-up in which initially five cars were involved took place near the Polymylos toll on one of the country’s largest highways, in the section leading from Veria to Kozani. …
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July 7, 2021
Social, Society
Four people have been injured in Zografou suburb of Athens after a man began to randomly attack passersby with a knife on Wednesday morning. None of the injuries in the hand and legs are considered to be serious. Among the injured is a 17-year-old boy, the owner of a bakery …
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May 28, 2021
Society, Very Mix
At least eight people suffered burn injuries and were experiencing breathing difficulties when an explosion occurred at a tsipouro distillation plant near Larissa in central Greece on Friday. According to preliminary reports, none of the injured plant workers were in critical condition, although at least six suffered from smoke inhalation. …
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July 7, 2020
Very Mix
A train of the urban train ISAP crashed at the platform of the terminal station in Kifissia, northern Athens, short after 12 o’ clock noon on Tuesday. Ten passengers have been injured, eight of them have been transferred to hospitals. According to preliminary media reports, the train crashed at the …
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November 17, 2019
Very Mix
Surreal atmosphere in Exarchia on Sunday: Riot police has “occupied” the roaring district of Athens. Streets are dead empty. Then a cultivated resident opens a window and the mellow tunes of an aria flow out in the darkness. The music traveled over the heads of riot policemen and the hiding …
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January 20, 2019
Greece, Politics
Macedonia protesters clashed with riot police outside the Greek Parliament on Sunday during the big rally against the Prespes Agreement. Armed with sticks a group of men tried to break the police cordon and enter the Parliament building in downtown Athens. The reaction by riot police was prompt with extensive …
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September 13, 2018
Society, Very Mix
A landslide in the area of the famous Zakynthos shipwreck has overturned boats and injured tourists who were visiting the iconic site. So far, reports about injuries and possible missing tourists are conflicting with media to speak of one to three injured tourists. +++According to latest information (01:30 pm): A …
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March 15, 2018
Refugees
At least 11 asylum seekers and 8 police officers were injured during clashes in the hot spot of Moria on the island of Lesvos on Wednesday evening. 200 women and children were evacuated in a nearby warehouse. Some 150 refugees and migrants in the Moria refugee camp staged a protest …
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December 20, 2017
Politics, Refugees
At least fifteen people were injured and transported to hospital and several tents turned to ashes when violent clashes between different ethnic groups of refugees and migrants broke out in the hot spot of Moria on the island of Lesvos on Tuesday night. The clashes started around 9:30 Tuesday night …
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December 14, 2017
Uncategorized
The last car of an amusement roller coaster in Aigio derailed, injuring a mom and three kids. Nobody claims responsibility for the accident. Neither the municipality authorities that were in charge for the permission and the fact that the roller coaster was installed in one of the main squares of …
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September 6, 2017
Very Mix
Two passengers were injured when high speed catamaran Sea Jet 2 collided with the pier while it was docking at the port of the island of Sifnos in central Aegean Sea. The accident occurred on Wednesday morning when Sea Jet 2 was trying to dock. According to the Greek Coast …
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July 21, 2017
Earthquake
Kos earthquake: Two dead, more than 120 injured, among them 5 in critical condition. Majority of the injured are tourists. Serious damages in the port of the island of Kos after a powerful earthquake stroke with 6.4 R short after midnight. One third of the island is without electricity. No …
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June 22, 2017
Greece, Politics
Thousands of municipality workers gathered outside the Interior Ministry in downtown Athens on Thursday morning. They threw water bottles, garbage and eggs at the ministry, then they attempted to enter the Greek Parliament. Police pushed them back making limited use of tear gas. The use of teargas angered the already …
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May 26, 2017
Society, Very Mix
A bus carrying elementary school pupils and parents to a daily excursion overturned on Friday morning near Serres in Norther Greece. Nine children and five accompanying parents were injured. The bus driver claimed that a truck was blocking the road. The accident occurred short before 10 o’ clock Friday morning …
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May 25, 2017
Greece, Politics
An explosion occurred in the car of former prime minister Lucas Papadimos short after 6:30 pm on Thursday in Athens. Papadimos was in the car together with two bodyguards. Two people were injured and taken to hospital. Not known if Papadimos among the injured. Reason for the explosion not known …
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October 26, 2016
Very Mix
Clashes among refugees, garbage bins on fire, presence of riot police and EU asylum staff that left the hot spot of VIAL on the island of Chios. The incidents broke out after a group of refugee women protested the slow asylum procedures outside the mobile offices of EASO, the European …
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June 2, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Serious clashes among migrants and fires broke out in Moria hot spot on the island of Lesvos, leaving behind 15 people injured as well as serious damages in the camp that led to evacuation of hundreds of families. According to reports from the area, a brawl broke out between Afghans …
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