Head rolls over shutdown of national highway

A director of the department responsible for Attica's motorways was sacked on Tuesday for omissions and mistakes that led to the shutdown of a section of the national highway connecting Athens to Lamia on Monday.

The decision was taken after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ordered Citizens Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis to investigate the reasons behind the closure that caused major traffic disruptions, inconveniencing scores of drivers.

With the Zenovia weather front bringing heavy snow, rain and low temperatures on Monday, authorities were blasted over a lack of proper traffic management which led to the closure of a section of the highway near the Malakasa junction, some 30 kilometers from the capital.

Referring to the sacking of the official, the PM's office said in a statement that "everybody must...