Rhodes

The power went out in parts of the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes on Saturday due to a technical failure.

According to local reports, there was a total blackout at both of the island's power plants due to a serious network failure.

This is the second power failure Rhodes has experienced in two weeks, after a similar incident last Friday.

The island of Rhodes was left without electricity on Friday after a malfunction at the local PPC power plant shortly after 10 a.m., a local newspaper reported.

Initially the problem appeared in one of the six units of the Soronis power plant which was then followed by a breakdown at the second plant in south Rhodes, website rodiaki.gr reported.

Four people drowned in the Greek seas on Friday, the authorities said on Saturday.

Rescue workers pulled a 74-year-old man out of the water off the coast of Zacharo in the Ilia prefecture of the Peloponnese on Friday night.

Unconscious when he was put in an ambulance, the 74-year-old was declared dead on arrival at a local hospital.

Police on Rhodes on Thursday launched an investigation to identify a human skeleton found in a park on the outskirts of the southeastern Aegean island's capital by a passer-by.

Forensics experts were examining the remains amid indications that they could be those of a foreign national reported missing in 2014.

A coroner was to determine the cause of death.

TILOS - When the power fails on the tiny Greek island of Tilos - a regular problem, particularly in the summer when tourists flood in - hotel owner Andreas Lardopoulos struggles with failed appliances, rotting food and inconvenienced guests.

An earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale struck off the Dodecanese island of Rhodes, at 9.40 a.m. on Wednesday, the Geodynamic Institute in Athens reported.

The tremor's epicenter was located 48 kilometers south of Rhodes, while its depth was at 26 kilometers.

There were no reports of injuries or damage.

A Turkish CN-235 transport airplane entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) on Tuesday and conducted an overflight 30 meters above the uninhabited islet of Zourafa, east of the island of Samothrace in the northern Aegean.

Turkish military forces are currently conducting training exercises in the region.

Civil protection authorities declared a state of emergency on the small southern Aegean island of Symi on Tuesday after it was struck by torrential rain on Monday night that wreaked widespread damage.

At the mercy of storm “Eurydice” is the island of Symi. Due to the intense phenomena at least 12 cars were washed off to the sea at the island’s port.

According to the island’s mayor, Lefteris Papakalodoukas, another 30 cars have been dragged into the sea at different parts of the island.

The island of Rhodes, the “Kállisti” (trnslt. “the most beautiful”) of the Greek cities as ancient historians liked to call it, has long attracted the attention of the world due to its beautiful beaches, rich history and advanced civilization.

Rhodes was a city with philosophical and ritual schools, conservatories, markets, stadiums, harbours and at least 3,000 statues.