A tragedy in Halkidiki: A lightning struck and killed a 13-year-old girl on Friday afternoon. Her mother has been slightly injured. According to state broadcaster ERT, the girl was walking with her mother at the beach of Posidi, when the lightning struck around 4:30 p.m. Friday afternoon. An ambulance rushed …
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UPD Femicide: 81-year-old stabs wife to death, attempts suicide
One more femicide in Greece: An 81-year-old man murdered his 73-year-old wife with a screwdriver in Alexandroupolis, north-eastern Greece on Friday morning. Following the crime, he attempted to commit suicide by drinking bleach. According to local media, neighbors saw the man on the balcony shouting “I killed my wife!” They …
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Man kills son-in-law, commits suicide
A 64-year-old man shot his 39-year-old son-in-law in the middle of a street in Nikaia suburb of Piraeus, then turned the gun against him and committed suicide. The crime took place around 8:30 on Friday morning in front of the victim’s wife and his minor son. It was a woman …
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Volos: Father shoots dead his daughter’s rapist
A 50-year-old man in Volos, central Greece, voluntarily surrendered to police on Tuesday afternoon confessing that he killed brother-in-law. The 33-year-old victim had allegedly sexually abused the perpetrator’s daughter for almost a decade. The suspect, an Albanian national, claimed responsibility for the murder after discovering that his brother-in-law from his …
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Father kills 42-year-old daughter, a multiple sclerosis patient
A father in Thessaloniki killed his 42-year-old daughter, a multiple sclerosis patient, with his own hands because he “could no longer see her suffering.” He later tried to take his own life with a speargun. “I killed her. I could no longer bear to see her in this state, suffering …
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Psychiatric ward patient kills another patient in Corfu hospital
A patient at the psychiatric ward of the General Hospital of Corfu is accused of killing a fellow patient at the state-run facility, police said ον Friday, The 45-year-old assailant, who is said to be grappling with bipolar disorder and psychosis, allegedly assaulted the victim, a 63-year-old woman who was …
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Matricide: Elderly man kills his bed-ridden mother in northern Greece
Matricide in northern Greece: A 61-year-old man has been arrested for the alleged murder of his 86-year-old mother. The man allegedly killed his elderly mother in her home in Kozani, western Macedonia on Monday. He called the ambulance service claiming that he had found that his mother had passed out. …
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Rhodes: Caregiver kills elderly. A serial killer?
The tragedy on the island of Rhodes, where a caregiver killed an elderly bed-ridden woman took an unexpected turn on Monday afternoons when she told police that she had killed to more elderly she was taking care of and had attempted to also kill her infant child. Monday morning the …
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Femicide: 81-year-old kills his wife with a sledgehammer
Femicide in Greece: An 81-year-old man hit and killed his 20 years young wife while she was sleeping. The man fatally wounded the 61-year-old victim hitting her on the head with a sledgehammer. He then committed suicide with a knife. According to local media messinialive, the man cut his throat …
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Father kills son with adze, attempts suicide
Police said on Thursday that a 69-year-old man has killed his 41-year-old son in Menemeni suburb of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The man was found unconscious next to his son‘s body on Wednesday afternoon. He is now at a hospital emergency unit under guard. A coroner determined that the victim was …
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Lightning kills over 50 sheep in northern Greece
A lightning killed more than 50 sheep in the region of Vlacha in Metsovo, northern Greece, during a thunderstorm that hit the area on Tuesday afternoon. According to state broadcaster ERT, the frequent thunderstorms that have broken out in recent days are particularly intense with lots of lightning. Greece is …
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Motorcyclist killed by a falling tree on Crete
A tragedy on the island of Crete has called for the intervention of the public prosecutor after a 51-year-old motorcycle rider was killed by a fallen pine tree. The father of three had halted at the red traffic light in Democratias Avenue, the most central road of Heraklio, on Thursday …
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Car driver in frenzy hits two elderly, returns to hit victim laying on the ground
With very high speed a car driver in frenzy hit a motorcycle with two elderly passengers on it, dragging one of them 300 meters, leaving the other one on laying injured on the ground. After a while he returned and drove over the second man on the ground, dragged him …
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Elderly man strangles wife, commits suicide: 12th victim on femicide in Greece
An elderly man murdered his wife in their summer home in Porto Heli on Thursday night. He informed the police about the crime and then he committed suicide. He left a note saying that she was sick and he could not come along with the situation. The woman is the …
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Lightning kills woman on the island of Skopelos (UPD)
A woman was killed by a lightning during a rainstorm on the island of Skopelos on Tuesday, local media report. The woman was reportedly doing agricultural works on the fields together with her husband, when she was hit but the lightning. She died immediately in front of her husbands’ eyes, …
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Angry elderly shoots dead municipality supervisor over water problem
With three bullets in the head, an elderly citizen shot dead the supervisor of Dionisos Municipality over a water leakage in his home.The perpetrator was arrested by police. The furious 77-year-old man went to the depot of Municipality of Dionysos, North Athens, at 8:45 Monday morning. He demanded a solution …
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Family tragedy: Air Force officer kills own child while starting her car
An unspeakable family tragedy: a member of the Greek Air Force killed her own child, a 20-month-old boy, when she drove her car backward. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday morning at the residence premises of the 110 Wing Battalion in Larissa. The mother stepped in the driver’s seat and started …
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Father kills 4-year-old son, commits suicide in Halandri, North Athens
A 27-year-old father shot his toddle son dead with a rifle and he committed suspected suicide right afterwards in an apartment of Halandri suburb of North Athens on Sunday morning. It was the noise of the shotguns that alerted neighbors who called the police. Police officers managed to enter the …
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Grazing Bull runs wild and kills farmer, shot dead by police
An odd story: Out of the blue a grazing bull run wild and allegedly killed a farmer in a village of Ancient Corinth, North-East Peloponnese. The 72-year-old died immediately after the bull attacked him, “nailing his horns into his belly” local media report. The victim was returning home after visiting …
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Lightning kills shepherd and motorcyclist in Northern Greece
Lightning during heavy thunderstorms in Northern Greece reportedly killed two men over the weekend. A 22-year-old shepherd in Kozani and a 58-year-old motorcyclist on Egnatia Highway died on Saturday and Sunday respectively. The shepherd was found by another shepherd on Saturday night. The 22-year-old of Albanian origin was working near …
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