Volos hospital

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.

However, officials said firefighters had brought under control the blaze burning for weeks in Dadia national park.

Singer-songwriter Lavrentis Machairitsas has died aged 63, apparently of heart failure. 

Machairitsas, who had been vacationing at his summer home in the area of Ptelos, Magnisia, was transferred to Volos hospital early on Monday morning and passed away at 6.30 a.m., 

A Volos prosecutor has recommended to the competent Volos Lower Court Judicial Council  that Dimitris Koufodonis, the top gun of the now defunct November 17 terrorist organisation who is serving 11 life sentences for as many murders, not be granted his regular furlough on the grounds that he has been recently charged (along with other inmates) with the felony of encouraging a prison uprising in

A 27-year-old man was in a Volos hospital in critical condition on Friday after jumping out of a seventh-floor window at the institution in what appeared to be his second suicide attempt within 24 hours.

The man was taken to the hospital on Thursday night after an attempt to leap into a 200-meter deep ravine near his home was thwarted by relatives.