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Storm Daniel, which has battered Greece since Monday, triggered
landslides, destroyed a bridge, caused the collapse of power
poles and carried away dozens of cars in muddy waters, just days
after a deadly wildfire in the north of the country.
The body of an elderly woman was recovered close to a community
in the southern Pelion area in central Greece on Wednesday, the
fire brigade said, raising the death toll from severe weather in
Greece to two.
"The body was found under a pile of woods," a fire brigade
official told Reuters, adding that a rescue operation was
continuing for three missing people.
A man died on Tuesday after a wall collapsed in bad weather in
the port city of Volos on the Pagasetic Gulf and about 94
inmates were moved to safety late on Tuesday after torrential
rain damaged part of their nursing home.
A Reuters witness said that the river near the nursing home had
swallowed the road and flooded a train station in Volos,
disrupting train traffic.
Greece has said the weather was the most extreme in terms of the
amount of rainfall since records have been kept in the country.
Police on Wednesday issued traffic warnings for the cities of
Trikala and Karditsa as the rainstorm was expected to intensify
again later on Wednesday.
Flash floods in Greece in 2017 killed 25 people and left
hundreds homeless.
In northwest Turkey, at least five people were killed after
heavy rains triggered flash floods, Turkish state broadcaster
TRT Haber said on Wednesday.
(Additional reporting by Lefteris Papadimas; Editing by Angeliki
Koutantou, William Maclean)
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