2023-09-07 15:05:00
In videos posted on social networks, residents film their village completely underwater. We can only see the roofs of the houses. The height of the water “reached between 1.5 and 2 meters” et “residents are stuck in their homes without any help”declared Giorgos Sakellariou, mayor of Palamas, on private TV Skaï, which broadcast images showing submerged houses.
Rescue operations for residents stranded in several villages in Thessaly, a large plain in central Greece, flooded by torrential rains, are underway, Greek firefighters announced on Thursday. Heavy rainfall began to hit the Magnesia department, 300 kilometers from Athens in northern Greece, its capital the port city of Volos and the villages of Mount Pelion on Monday evening and Tuesday before hitting the towns on Wednesday of Karditsa and Trikala, in the North-West.
Two people were found dead on Tuesday in Magnesia and another in Thessaly on Wednesday. At least two people are missing, announced Thursday the spokesperson for the Greek fire brigade, Yannis Artopios.
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