Search and rescue

Romania's Interior Ministry (MAI) will get new medevac and search and rescue helicopters, according to a press statement released by the government on Monday.

A child's body was found on July 29 in Turkey's flood-hit northwestern province of Düzce amid search and rescue efforts for two missing children, a rescue official said.

Search and rescue teams have found the bodies of a woman and a child in a northwestern province of Turkey, with efforts to find two more missing people continuing following last week's flood.

A 32-year-old man died late on Tuesday after falling into a well in the area of Minoa Pediada near Iraklio on Crete.
The head of the local fire service, Nikos Lagoudakis, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency that a search was launched on Tuesday night when authorities were informed that the man was missing and feared to have fallen down a well.

Teams of the Kalofer Mountain Rescue Service conducted an operation to take down three people stranded on Botev peak, the Mountain Rescue Service with the Bulgarian Red Cross told Focus News Agency. The people were suffering from cold and exhaustion, the rescuers said. The three Bulgarian citizens were supported down by the rescue teams. They are now in good condition.

Turkish rescue teams and gendarmerie units continue to search and rescue efforts for an Anadolu Agency correspondent who was swept away by an avalanche in northeastern Turkey on May 10.

Rescue teams on the Greek island of Crete have called off the search for a 64-year-old Polish man who went missing on April 13 while hiking in the mountains of Hania.

Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a crashed Japanese F-35 stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, as efforts to find the missing pilot continued, authorities said on April 10.

Greece's coast guard launched a search and rescue operation on Thursday to find a boat with migrants stranded in the sea area between the northern Aegean Sea island of Samothrace (or Samothraki) and the town of Alexandroupoli.

The search continued overnight and on Monday for four people, missing since Saturday night when the car that they were in was swept away by rainwaters in the Messara region of southern Crete.