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A court on Thursday issued a second temporary detention warrant against the 34-year-old woman for the deaths of her two younger children, Malena and Iris. Roula Pispirigou, from the western port city of Patra, is accused of killing her three daughters in 2019 and 2021. The 34-year-old is already in …

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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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A 12-year-old pupil was killed and two others were injured hen the boiler at a primary school in Serres, northern Greece, exploded on Monday. The sixth grade pupil was rushed to local hospital unconscious and there doctors could only confirm his death. The two other pupils, aged 6.5 and 11, …

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Tragedy on Crete: A rock crushed on a small hotel facility in Lasithi, killing one woman, seriously injuring her child. The tragedy took place in Agia Fotia resort village near to Ierapetra short before Saturday midnight. According to local media neakriti.gr, a large piece of rock detached, rolled down the …

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Femicide in Greece: A 36-year-old woman from Bangladesh was found seriously injured on a street in Kypseli district of Athens early  Sunday afternoon. The woman was stabbed to death by her husband’s friend in front of her home. The injured woman was still alive when police and paramedics arrived at …

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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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A young Briton died on Monday after he was struck by the tail rotor of a helicopter in unclear circumstances in a town outside Athens. The victim was 20-22 years old, media report. The accident happened at around 6.20 p.m. in Agios Georgios area in the town of Spata, in …

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Greek mafia boss and notorious criminal Giannis Skaftouros was gunned down by two assailants while he was enjoying Easter Monday with relatives and friends in his summer house in the regional unit of Viotia. The man who was known as one of the bosses of the Greek Mafia and his …

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Four more ethnic Greeks are killed in eastern Ukraine raising the total fatalities to ten on a single day. The Greek Foreign MInistry announced late on Saturday that four more ethnic Greeks were killed in Sartana, eastern Ukraine. Another four were killed Saturday afternoon in the village of Bugas, some …

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At least two ethnic Greeks were killed and another six including one child were injured in the outskirts of the village Sartana in eastern Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry in Athens announced early Saturday afternoon, confirming media reports a little earlier. Initially media reported of three dead. According to the correspondent …

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Two ethnic Greeks were fatally shot and two others were seriously injured by three Ukrainian soldiers in the village of Granitna, near the country’s eastern border with Russia, the Greek Foreign ministry said on Monday. The ministry said the incident took place after an argument over an “insignificant matter.” No …

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A man and a woman were arrested in Athens for killing the woman’s 7-year-old child in January 2017, buried the body in a make-shift grave and later kept the bones into a tool box. The crime took place in the apartment the couple was renting in Kypseli district of Athens. …

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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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A reward of 18,000 euros will be given to any information that will lead to the identification and capture of the human who killed the famous seal Kostis with a speargun. The young seal was the mascot of the island of Alonnisos and the local Sea park. The money has …

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The body of a young protected seal was found washed out on a rocky beach of islet Peristera by Alonnisos. The spear of a speargun had gone through the flesh of the young mammal. A tag on his tail revealed that the body belonged to Kostis, the famous seal of …

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Two high-school children, a boy and a girl, both 17 years old, were killed during the earthquake that hit the island of Samos short before 2 o’ clock Friday noon. A third student, a 14-year-old boy is currently airlifted to a hospital in Athens. Firefighters and rescuers recovered the two …

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Tragedy on the island of Corfu: A British national was found dead in the sea area of Avlaki in the north-east of the island in the Ionian Sea. According to preliminary information, the woman was hit by the propeller of a speed boat. Vessels of the Coast Guard have recovered …

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A 55-year-old Greek sailor was killed and a 26-year-old Greek colleague was injured in a fire that broke out on the Greek-flagged freighter “Faneromeni” on early Wednesday morning. Both Greeks were engineers. The freighter was sailing in the Arabian Sea, wben the fire broke out at approximately 04:00 (Athens time), …

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Tragic end for an 18-year-old tourist on summer vacations on the island of Mykonos. The girl was killed on the spot when the vehicle she was with another three friends fell off a cliff. The dream vacations for a group of 8 young tourists turned into a nightmare in the …

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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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