Tag Archives: Kavala

Eleven migrants were burned alive in a car crash in Northern Greece early Saturday morning. The frontal crash between a truck and a mini van occurred short after 5:00 a.m. Saturday near the village Sarakina by the town of  Kavala. According to Greek police, the private car was heading to …

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While Central and South Greece were hit by a heat wave, the North-East of the country was hit by a powerful rain storm and gusty wind. Streets turn into rivers, homes and businesses were flooded, roof tops were detached and trees were uprooted. Most hit by the extreme weather phenomenon …

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An unprecedented incident occurred at a festival in Kavala, Northern Greece. A elderly woman from the audience approached the maestro of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Krinides and spitted at him for playing Bach and not the works of Greek composers. According to local media reports, the woman in her 70’s …

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More than 120,000 acres of agricultural land are estimated to be under water in the broader area of Kavala in North-Eastern Greece. Torrential rains flooded homes and business place and left behind the people in devastation. Rivers and streams were flooded, landslides occurred and even parts of the national roads …

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At least six people died and ten were injured when a car carrying migrants crashed in Egnatia highway around 9 o’ clock on Friday morning. The vehicle left the road, ‘flew’ over the barriers and crashed on the rocks.  Among the dead are three children, some of the injured are …

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For whole seventeen years he has been examining patients, diagnosing illness and ailments and prescribing medicine and therapies.  He had been appointed to the public General Hospital of Kavala, Northern Greece, in 2001. He was supposed to have been a general practitioner. Now he has been fired. Authorities found out …

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Greek authorities say four people have died after a smuggler’s car carrying eight migrants drove off a 90-foot cliff during a police chase in northern Greece. Hospital officials say the other four migrants and the Pakistani driver of the overloaded vehicle were injured, one seriously, in the accident late Tuesday. …

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UPDATE: Missing girl Christina,13, was found on Thursday evening and taken to the hospital in Kavala for medical tests. Police and rescue teams found Christina at the mountain area of Paggaios Mt. The 13-year-old,  who was missing since Sunday evening, was wandering alone when found by the rescue teams. The …

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They are more than two years in prison  and they still receive their salaries from the Greek state.  In December 2010, municipality employees S.S., 50, and I.M. 51, were sentenced to life imprisonment and 17 years in jail respectively  for having murdered in cold blood the mayor of Paggaios in …

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Seventeen-year-old, Konstantina Angel, from Kavala, Greece topped the BEAT100 Music Video Chart last weekend with her original track, “Just Your Touch.” Konstantina’s BEAT100 entry received a Bronze Video Award and Silver Song Award, along with just fewer than 4,000 votes and over 16,000 views, thanks to her supportive friends and …

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The tragedy in Kavala where three children lost their lives in a house fire reached the other side of the big river, the Atlantic Ocean. Washington Post published an article on the issue, stressing the most striking aspect of the story: that these children had not be dead today, if …

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A jobless couple set a tent on the main square of Kavala, Northeast Greece, and started a hunger strike. The aim of their desperate action? To get a job! Lazaros Papadopoulos, 60, and his wife Frideriki Toka, 40, saw no other solution to raise attention to their problem. They have been without …

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