Imathia

Two people were killed on Saturday when the car they were in crashed with an oncoming train as it attempted to pass through an unmanned level crossing in a rural part of Imathia in northern Greece.

According to local news site Verianet.gr, the driver of the car was a 54-year-old local resident, while his passenger was a 74-year-old woman.

Infections of the West Nile virus have climbed to 40 in the region of central Macedonia in northern Greece, according to local authorities.

Deputy Regional Governor for Public Health Dimitris Hatzivrettas said the latest data refer to the period stretching from May until last Thursday. Most of the cases were reported in the region of Imathia and in Thessaloniki.

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A destructive combination excessive rainfall and extremes of heat and cold has caused tremendous damage to many crops across Greece this summer. "How can the trees handle temperatures going from 40 degrees Celsius down to 14C within just two days? We have air conditioning - they don't," the president of the Imathia Farmers' Cooperative, Christos Giannakakis, said to Kathimerini.

Greek police are in search of an African-American woman who reportedly defaced more than 10 tombstones at the Museum of Royal Tombs of Aigai in Vergina, Macedonia.

A prosecutor in Veria, northern Greece, has issued criminal charges against five suspected members of a racket that has been stealing and reselling trucks for years.

A 14-year-old girl was killed Friday night in a road accident in Alexandreia, Imathia, in northern Greece, police said.

The incident, which took place at 8 p.m. on Friday, occurred when the 18-year-old driver lost control of his car and rammed into the victim.

The girl was pronounced dead at the local hospital.

The game had passion and intensity while the atmosphere was festive. It was the afternoon of Holy Wednesday at the Municipal Sports Center of Alexandreia in Imathia, northern Greece, and two strong teams were locking horns on the pitch: Megas Alexandros soccer club from Trikala, with a history of 50 years, against a team of refugee men staying at a nearby camp on the former 722 Military Base.

Some 100 people, mostly young adults, travelling to a northern Greece festival entitled “Eleftheria” (freedom, in Greek) apparently believed that the concept also extended to free travel by rail…

Regional education authorities in Imathia, northern Greece, have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 17-year-old local girl who fell from a second-floor balcony in Rome earlier this month during a school trip to the Italian capital.