Katerini

A nurse has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment over the fatal beating of a 21-year-old patient who lived in a facility for young people with disabilities in eastern Thessaloniki.

The young man died in hospital November 2021 after being beaten in the home.

An amusement park ride on which a teen lost his life last week was reportedly sold for scrap in 2020 but its new owner decided to keep it in operation after making improvised repairs, its previous owner has reportedly claimed.

The woman, who is described as the owner of an amusement park in the town of Katerini, has been asked to testify to an investigating magistrate about the case.

One man died when the van he was driving smashed into the back of a  tourist bus temporarily stopped in the emergency lane of Greece's main north-south highway near the town of Katerini, early Thursday morning. 

The accident happened at tthe 417th kilometre of the Athens-Thessaloniki highway, in the direction if Athens, five kilometres after the Litohoro junction, police said.

An architect-engineer was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a three-member court of criminal appeal in Thessaloniki, which found him guilty of being a protagonist in a scam involving house loans through the former Agricultural Bank.

Fifty-eight passengers on a train travelling from the northern port city of Thessaloniki to Larissa, central Greece, were stranded on Wednesday after the train broke down, operator Hellenic Train said in a press release.

They were illegally transporting foreigners outside of Greece

Police on Wednesday detained a woman in connection with the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl in Thessaloniki last week.

The woman is believed to be an acquaintance of the child's family and may in the past have lived in the same neighborhood as her.

Officers found her on the beach of the town of Katerini and led her to Thessaloniki's Security Division.

A worker feeds pigs in a breeding farm near the city of Katerini in northern Greece, Thursday. Greece detected its first case of African swine fever at a breeding farm in the north of the country this week, agriculture ministry officials said. [Reuters]

Two people were arrested on Tuesday in the northern Greek city of Katerini over a scam involving phoning parents and telling them that their sons or daughters had caused a road accident that resulted in the death of a child.

The caller would then ask for money to ensure that their relatives were cleared of wrongdoing.

The DNA of a man who was arrested in the northern Greek city of Katerini for robberies is identical to the one found in the former hideout of Christodoulos Xiros, a convicted member of November 17 terror group, a senior police official said Thursday.