Provinces of Greece

Ships in various Greek ports were unable to dock on Saturday due to strong northerly winds that reached up to 9 on the Beaufort scale in certain parts of the Aegean Sea.

Rafina and Lavrio ports remained closed, as did the Rio-Antirio maritime route. In northern Greece, ships were unable to sail between Alexandroupoli and Samothraki, Kavala and Prino, and Keramoti and Thassos.

Two foreign women, aged 23 and 24, were arrested on Wednesday by officers of the Paionia Police Department in the Kilkis regional unit, Northern Greece, for telephone fraud. 

Police on Crete have shut down an illegal drug racket in the Rethymno area of Mylopotamos and arrested one suspect, while identifying another believed to be his accomplice.

Police on Crete have shut down an illegal drug racket in the Rethymno area of Mylopotamos and arrested one suspect, while identifying another believed to be his accomplice.

The Ministry of Rural Development and Food estimates that damage caused by the Daniel weather system to crop and animal production on the Thessaly Plain, a region famous for its agricultural production, will be three times worse than that which resulted from Ianos in 2020.

Some 73,000 hectares across Thessaly are under water, with 50,000-55,000 sown with cotton. 

Rescue teams took people out of floodwaters in inflatable boats and in bulldozers on Saturday as they moved into villages hit hardest by a sweeping rainstorm that killed at least 10 people in central Greece this week.

The death toll from storm Daniel that began battering central Greece on Monday rose to 10 on Friday while four people were still missing, according to Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias.

Ten people have died so far because of the storm 'Daniel' in central Greece, Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Friday, while another four are still missing in Volos and Mt. Pilio.

Four people have been hospitalized with light injuries following an altercation in which a shotgun was fired in Larissa in Thessaly. 

According to local news site Larissanet, police are investigating the incident, which occurred in the Nea Smyrni district of the city.

All traffic on the Athens-Thessaloniki motorway from Nikea in Larissa to the border with Magnesia regional unit has been suspended due to flooding on the highway.

Thessaly regional police directorate ordered the road to be closed in both directions between the two points.