Two dead as rainstorm pounds Greece
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Torrential rain flooded homes and businesses in Athens and other parts of the country, the authorities said.
PHOTO: REUTERS
ATHENS - Two people died on Jan 21 in Greece after torrential rain flooded homes and businesses in Athens and other parts of the country, the authorities said.
A woman died after being hit by a car that was carried away in flash floods in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada, a fire brigade official told Reuters.
Earlier on Jan 21, a cost guard officer was washed away by the rough sea in a port in Peloponnese, southern Greece.
"Ηe fell into the sea while he was trying tie up a small boat in the harbour," said a coast guard official.
The fire brigade has received hundreds of calls to pump water out of flooded buildings in Athens. The rainstorm was expected to move to the eastern part of the country on Jan 22. REUTERS
