Patra

Two men were to face a prosecutor in Patra, western Greece, Friday after police discovered half a kilogram of heroin hidden in the lights of the vehicle they were traveling in.
Working on a tip-off, officers of the local anti-narcotics division stopped the truck on the Patra-Corinth highway in Achaia and discovered the drugs with the help of a sniffer dog.

The toll in Greece from the new coronavirus rose to 10 after a fourth death in 24 hours was reported on Friday evening.

According to unconmfirmed eports, the latest victim is a 93-year-old woman who was being treated at a hospital in the Patra suburb of Rio in western Greece, which is where some of the country's first cases were recorded.

A ferryboat that had been carrying a possible coronavirus case docked at the port of Patra in western Greece on Friday evening after dropping off the patient at the port of Igoumenitsa further north.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a wildfire that broke out on Monday in the area of Tsameika, near the port city of Patra in the western Peloponnese.
The man is facing charges of arson by negligence as he reportedly started the blaze accidentally while carrying out farm work, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported on Tuesday.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a wildfire that broke out on Monday in the western Peloponnese, in the area of Tsameika, near the port city of Patra.

According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency the man is facing charges of arson by negligence as he reportedly started the blaze accidentally while carrying out farm work.

A moderate earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale rattled parts of western Greece on Tuesday, though there have been no reports of injuries or damage.

According to the Athens-based Geodynamic Institute, the 4.3 tremor struck at 11.58 a.m. off the coast of the port town of Kyllini, southwest of Patra.

Greek black metal band Rotting Christ has had a concert canceled in an apparent response to protests over the obscenity of its name.
Sakis Tolis, the lead singer and founder of the group, said in a Facebook post that yesterday's gig at the Aigli venue in Patra in the Peloponnese had been called off.

Port officials in the western Greek city of Patra said on Monday they found a foreign national hiding in a custom-made compartment in the engine of a car that was about to board a ship destined for an undisclosed port abroad.

The man and the driver of the car were both arrested and were to appear before a prosecutor later in the day.

A gang of teenagers responsible for dozens of home burglaries was unraveled on Wednesday by police in the Western port city of Patra.

Three males, aged 16, 17 and 18, were arrested.

Far from the summits, the markets, the polemics and the posturing, the Greek crisis was about ordinary families whose lives were upended. Few more so than the Papathanasopouloses.

I met them on a drizzly day in Patra, southwestern Greece. They had recently lost their daughter Angeliki in the Marfin fire.