Six foreign nationals have been killed and dozens of others injured after gale-force winds, rain and hailstorms struck northern Greece, authorities say. Two elderly Czech nationals were killed when strong winds swept away their travel trailer in Halkidiki, a popular tourist peninsula in northern Greece, police said. Elsewhere in the region, a woman and an 8-year-old boy, both Romanian nationals, were killed after a roof collapsed on a restaurant in Nea Plagia. A medical centre said it had treated 60 to 70 people, most with fractures. "It is the first time in my 25-year career that I have lived through something like this," the medical centre director, Athansios Kaltsas, told OPEN TV.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 11, 2019 00:11 UTC