Greece’s health authorities have confirm the first imported Covid infection on a German tourist arrived with a group a few days ago at Heraklio on the island of Crete. The infected tourist has been isolated According to local media, the first tourists from Germany, The Netherlands and Switzerland are on …
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Missing Alert: 28-year-old French tourist goes missing in Greece
French tourist, Joyce – Timothy Radocic, went missing from the area of Piraeus on August 21st 2020. A Greek charity organization was informed about it on September 10 and published a missing alert a day later. According to the Missing Alert, Radojcic is 1.80 m tall and thin, with brown …
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Greek Air Force rescues British climber fallen into Samothrace gorge (video)
Greek Air Force deployed a Super Puma helicopter to rescue a British climber from a gorge on the island of Samothrace. The man was hiking with a friend when he fell into the rocks of the gorge, in a depth of some 10 meters. He remained trapped for two days, …
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UPD Teenager foreigner airlifted from Kalymnos to Crete as coronavirus suspect
Inside a special negative pressure capsule a teenager boy was flown with a Chinook helicopter from the island of Kalymnos to the University Hospital in Heraklio on Crete early Thursday morning. The 17-year-old French national had developed high fever for the last two days and chest pain. Doctors at the …
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British tourist drowned at beach by Heraklio on Crete
A 65-year-old British tourist drowned Saturday noon at the beach of Stalida by Heraklio on the island of Crete. The man was found dead a few meters away from the beach. According to local media information, the lifeguard on duty at the beach saw a man floating face down in …
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Zakynthos: Tourist found hanged in hotel room in Keri
A tourist was found hanged in a hotel room on the island of Zakynthos of Tuesday night. Local reports say that the woman ended her own life. The 45-year-old woman from the Czech Republic was visiting the island alone. She had booked a room in a hotel in Keri area. …
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First tourist tested positive on Crete; first coronavirus case in Rafina
The first confirmed coronavirus case of a foreign tourist vising the island of Crete has been identified on Saturday. It needed the help of local police to locate the patient. Health authorities are on alert. The identification of the first positive coronavirus case has been detected on Crete, just a …
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Handful of candy saves New Zealand woman during dinghy adventure
A 45-year-old woman from New Zealand survived almost two days adrift in the Aegean Sea thanks to a handful of candy and the strategic use of three plastic bags to keep herself warm and dry. She was rescued by the Greek Coast Guard 55 nautical miles north of Crete and …
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Folegandros: Missing tourist from New Zealand found 55 nm off Crete
An incredible adventure for a 45-year-old tourist from New Zealand sailing the Greek islands with a catamaran yacht. The woman went missing from the island of Folegandros Friday noon and was found on board of a dinghy in the middle of the Aegean Sea, 55 nautical miles off the North …
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Dutch tourist dies after falling off the cliff from Parga Castle
A Dutch tourist died after falling off the cliff of the Venetian Castle in Parga, Epirus in Western Greece on Thursday. It was a couple of French tourist who found the woman’s body on the rocks below the Castle. The woman was touring the Castle apparently alone and she was …
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Tragic end for young British tourist missing in Northern Greece
The body of the young British hiker who went missing in Northern Greece on Sunday, September 8th 2019, was found on Wednesday. The body was found in a difficult to access mountainous area “Astraka” on Pappigos Mountain in Epirus. According to local media information, the 26-year-old man had most likely …
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Silver Alert for French tourist missing in Halkidiki, Northern Greece
A French tourist has been missing since 26. August 2019 from a beach in Halkidiki peninsula in Northern Greece. According to an issued Silver Alert, 27-year-old Guillaume Mattarelli went missing at Azapiko beach in Halkidiki on 26. August 2019. He is 1.72 m tall, thin, with brown-green eyes. he has …
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Swan dad defends his family against amateur paparazzi (video)
A family of swans are proudly swimming along the shore of a beach on the island of Skiathos. Beach goers grab their mobile phones and shoot pictures of the cute bird family. However, when a tourist comes much too close, father swan gets angry and sets to defend his family …
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Crete: Tavern owner rescues tourist’s life with Heimlich Maneuver (video)
A tavern owner in Crete rescued a tourist’s life with the Heimlich Maneuver. The tourist was sitting with a friend in a tavern in Kolymvari by Chania having lunch on Thursday. At some point, the tourist fell unease and started chocking apparently due to a piece of food stuck in …
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Dutch tourist dies while crossing the gorge of Rokka on Crete
An 80-year-old Dutch tourist died in what it seems a hiker’s accident. He was crossing on his own the gorge of Rokka on Mt Kissamos on the island of Crete. The man was on vacation on the Greek island together with his wife. The man decided to cross the gorge …
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French tourist dies after she falls off a cliff while on hiking tour on Crete
A French hiker died on the spot after she fell off a cliff during a hiking tour in Sfakia area on the island of Crete. The 60-year-old woman was hiking together with her husband in the gorge from Agia Roumeli to Agios Pavlos and was on the E4 hiking path …
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US citizen dies during rock climbing at the Crash of the Titans
A 40-year-old US citizen died in what it seems an accident during a climbing tour in Leonidio, Arcadia, Peloponnese. According to local media, it was around 1 o’ clock Sunday noon, when the man fell from a height of several meters while he was climbing the rock known as the …
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UPD Polish tourist Andrzej Weber missing in Chania area, relatives ask for help
Local authorities are on alert about 64-year-old Andrzej Weber who arrived on the island of Crete on April 6 and went missing three days later. His last phone call to his family was on April 8, 2019. Weber went missing in the region of Sougia on Tuesday, April 9. According …
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British tourist dies on Kalymnos due to ambulance shortage, says Hospitals Union
A 74-year-old British tourist died on the island of Kalymnos in the Dodecanese in the night form Monday to Tuesday because there was no ambulance available to take her to hospital, the national union of public hospital workers (POEDIN) has said. In a statement, POEDIN said the local hospital on …
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Fireworks? Water by the Pool? German tourist complains about 5*resort on Rhodes
Fireworks in the evening? Water by the pool? Prompt service? A German tourist at a 4-star resort on the island of Rhodes had 1000+1 reasons to complaint about. The nights in the hotel were “sheer horror,” he wrote implying that especially children need peace and calmness during their vacations. “We …
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