ATHENS: At least one person has died in eastern Greece after torrential rains hit the country, already ravaged for weeks by devastating wildfires, authorities said on Tuesday (Sep 5). However, officials said firefighters had brought under control the blaze burning for weeks in Dadia national park.
ATHENS: At least one person has died in eastern Greece after torrential rains hit the country, already ravaged for weeks by devastating wildfires, authorities said on Tuesday .
"Storms and heavy rains were hitting Tuesday," said Artopios, adding the dead man was found in central Greece's Magnesia region. Meteorologist Panagotis Giannopoulos told ERT that"the amount of water that fell in 24 hours is the same as the usual rainfall for the whole of autumn". "This is an extreme phenomenon", said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a meeting on Tuesday with Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.On Monday evening, storms also caused landslides in Evia, an island close to Athens, while crops were damaged in Elis in the southwest Peloponnese region, according to local media.A massive blaze raging over the last two weeks destroyed swathes of the Dadia national park in the northern Evros region.
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