Coroner

Police in the central Greek region of Magnisia on Wednesday announced the start of a homicide investigation into the death of a 58-year-old woman from Germany, who was spending her holidays with her husband in Greece at Milina, in the mountains of Pelion.

Actor Anne Heche died from inhalation injury and burns after her fiery car crash and the death was ruled an accident, according to coroner's results released on Aug. 17.

Heche, 53, also had a fractured sternum caused by "blunt trauma," according to information on the website of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.

Police are probing the cause of death of a woman whose body was found in an irrigation canal in the region of Platykambos near Larissa in central Greece on Monday.
According to comments by coroner Roubini Leontari to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, clothes found at the scene suggested that the deceased was probably an elderly woman.

An official report by coroners on Tuesday has revised the assertion on Monday that the 11-month-old infant from Syria that was proclaimed dead at Pedon childrens' hospital in Athens on Sunday had been sexually abused.

Six people - two store owners and four police officers - have been charged with fatal bodily harm in connection with the death of LGBTQ activist Zak Kostopoulos in September 2018 in central Athens, a Misdemeanors Council ruled Monday.

Police in Xanthi, northern Greece, on Wednesday were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman whose charred body was found on the premises of a derelict factory on Tuesday afternoon.
According to sources, a passer-by alerted the fire service about a fire at the factory and firefighters arrived to find the body in flames.

Security camera footage which placed the car of the main suspect in the murder of an American scientist in Crete near the World War II bunker where her body was found was the first evidence which led authorities to the detained 27-year-old man, a local website reported.

Authorities on Crete have attributed the death of a 59-year-old American scientist whose body was found in an abandoned WWII bunker on Monday night to foul play, though tests are expected to shed more light on its actual cause.

Suzanne Eaton's body was found inside a cave near the settlement of Xamoudochori, in Hania, nearly a week after she was last seen by friends on July 2.

A coroner investigating the death of a Nigerian man in police custody in downtown Athens on February 8 yesterday ruled that the 35-year-old had "ischemic-type myocardial lesions" as a result of drug abuse.

Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of a 34-year-old policeman and his 23-year-old girlfriend whose bodies were found in the former's home in Porto Heli, on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese.

According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, police are not treating the incident as a possible crime, though a coroner was to determine the cause of death.