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Camping, hotel evacuated in Elafonisos due to blaze

Tourists at a camping site and a hotel on the island of Elafonisos, southern Peloponnese, were told to evacuate due to a fire that broke out on Saturday morning.
The evacuation was ordered for precautionary reasons and no settlements were currently at risk, the deputy regional governor of Lakonia, Adamandia Tzanetea, told state-run news agency ANA-MPA.

High risk of forest fires on Monday, Greek authorities warn

The risk of forest fires across the country is very high on Monday, according to the General Secretariat for Civil Protection which highlighted the prefectures of Attica, Evia, Viotia, Fthiotida, Fokida, Larissa, Magnisia, Corinthia, Argolida, Arkadia, Lakonia and Hania as the most vulnerable - at level 4.

Man shoots Citizens’ Service Centre’s employee

A 75-year-old entered the Citizens’ Service Centre (KEP) at Geraki, Lakonia holding a gun and shot three times a 40-year-old employee.

According to preliminary information, the woman was wounded in the arm and transferred to the hospital.

The people who were there at the moment of the shooting managed to take the gun from the man.