‘It’s too hot,’ say tourists as season takes off

Dubbed by Newsweek "Greece's Summer of Hell," the tourist season is off to a precarious start. At least 10 tourists have gone missing or been found dead over the past weeks in Greece. The tragic string of deaths and disappearances comes as the country has also been inundated by heatwaves, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius in parts.

"It was definitely too hot," one tourist who had just come from the Acropolis told us. "We walked around but could not stay long. We decided to take a taxi back [to the hotel]. [The heat] has gotten really bad."

This weather follows last year's rising temperatures that exacerbated devastating wildfires, erratic rain that caused catastrophic floods, and dust storms. "In the 20th century, we never had a heatwave before June 19. We had had several in the 21st century, but none before June 15," said Panos Giannopoulos, chief...