Tag Archives: injuries

The violent crackdown on protesting seasonal firefighters at the Ministry of Climate Change & Civil Protection late on Thursday has triggered an outrage. The “heroes” the government hails and is proud of in summer, loves to beat and teargas in autumn. Riot police forces fired teargas in the corridors of …

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A truck driving on the regional road near Glyfada in Evia crashed on railway tracks and collided with a passing train of the Hellenic Train traveling on the Halkida-Athens route. The train No. 1551 was carrying 130 passengers onboard. Three of them, a 59-year-old man and two boys aged 12 …

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Two people were injured and three arrested when clashed erupted between protesters and police forces outside the court in Kalamata where the the trial for nine Egyptian nationals starts over the deadly migrant shipwreck off the coast of Pylos in June 2023. Clashes outside a court in Kalamata, as 9 …

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Every Easter the same plague: injuries due to firecrackers and flares and arrests for the same reason. Seven people, among them minors, were injured during the Resurrection ceremony in churches throughout Greece at Holy Saturday midnight. In Chania on the island of Crete, a 15-year-old boy had to have two …

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An accident involving a tourist bus and a trolley bus injured six tourists on a sight-seeing tour in Athens. The tourists were injured after a cable fell on the roof of the double-decker. The accident occurred at noon on Monday on Panepistimiou Avenue in the center of Athens. Citing the …

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Six passengers on a public bus were lightly injured in a traffic accident in Liosia suburb of western Athens on Monday morning.. According to police, while the bus was driving down Megalou Alexandrou Avenue when it veered off course and collided with a light pole. The driver allegedly lost control …

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An elderly local man and one firefighter have been injured during the forest fire that is raging out of control in Mavros Kolymbos area of Lasithi on the island of Crete since Saturday morning. Late Saturday afternoon, the number of injured rose to four: a woman broke her arm, while …

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A 17-year-old student and the 60-year-old principal of a high school in Kypseli district of Athens have been hospitalized with multiple injuries after a young man barged into the school grounds and attacked the student in the head with a hammer. Armed with two knives and a hammer, the 19-year-old …

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A bus carrying tourists, including eight Greeks, collided with a truck and went off the road on Tuesday in Bulgaria. A total of 10 people were transferred to the hospital, including eight Greeks and two Romanians. Ten people were slightly injured in the accident, Bulgarian news agency BTA reported. The …

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The explosion on the Greek-owned cargo ship Vyssos in the Black Sea on Wednesday while en route to the Ismail port on the Danube in Ukraine was either caused by a mine or a drone. The dry cargo vessel Vyssos, under the Panamanian flag and owned by Nava Shipping Ltd, …

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Shelves loaded with case files at the Prosecutor’s Office in Athens collapsed on Tuesday, thus injuring two people. A court clerk and an employee of a transport company were trapped under the voluminous case files and could be only rescued with the help of other clerks and citizens currently in …

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Four people were injured when a sudden windstorm hit Nea Playia in Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece on Sunday morning. The squall lasted only a few minutes, however, it was powerful enough to sweep the area including the beach, bringing “everything upside down” as eyewitnesses said, injuring four people and …

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A 43-year-old woman, a police officer, is struggling for her life in the ICU of a hospital of Larissa, central Greece, following a brutal assault by her 53-year-old husband, a tavern owner well-known in the area. The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday, August 3, after an intense …

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Two men were injured after a helicopter made an emergency landing in a field on the island of Kefalonia on Thursday morning. The two Greek men, the pilot and one passenger, aged 60 and 65 years old, were transferred to the local hospital where they are reportedly being treated for …

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With fireworks, crackers, the famous racket-war of Chios and a short visit to the church, Greeks celebrated  the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, the loud fest left eight people injured, among them four children, aged 7-14. More and more people are now calling for the end of the custom. The …

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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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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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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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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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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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