Katerini

Fifty-eight passengers on a train travelling from the northern port city of Thessaloniki to Larissa, central Greece, were stranded on Wednesday after the train broke down, operator Hellenic Train said in a press release.

They were illegally transporting foreigners outside of Greece

Police on Wednesday detained a woman in connection with the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl in Thessaloniki last week.

The woman is believed to be an acquaintance of the child's family and may in the past have lived in the same neighborhood as her.

Officers found her on the beach of the town of Katerini and led her to Thessaloniki's Security Division.

Eleven snow ploughs were dispatched by municipal authorities in northern Greece to clear roads on and around Mount Hortiatis, which received more than 30 centimeters of snowfall overnight and on Thursday morning.

A worker feeds pigs in a breeding farm near the city of Katerini in northern Greece, Thursday. Greece detected its first case of African swine fever at a breeding farm in the north of the country this week, agriculture ministry officials said. [Reuters]

A 45-year-old mother and her 17-year-old daughter who went missing last week and whose bodies were found at the bottom of a 120-meter-deep ravine in Pieria, northern Greece on Sunday, died instantly, according to the results on Monday of an autopsy conducted at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University.

The results of toxicology tests are expected in the coming days.

City, University of London is holding an evening symposium on Tuesday at 6.30 p.m. to celebrate 10 years in Piraeus and 125 years in London. 

The DNA of a man who was arrested in the northern Greek city of Katerini for robberies is identical to the one found in the former hideout of Christodoulos Xiros, a convicted member of November 17 terror group, a senior police official said Thursday.

The Bulgarian was wanted by the public prosecutor's office in Katerini for participating in a criminal group for the trafficking of babies.

According to the investigation, he found mothers in Bulgaria and offered them between 6,000 and 8,000 euros per child. He was the leader of a crime group for child adoption in the Katerini area. 13 cases have been proven, BNR reported.

Four people were arrested on Thursday, among which a man who had escaped from a prison in the Greek town of Serres in central Macedonia in January this year, after allegedly committing an armed robbery in another town, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA.