Mandra

Clashes took place on Saturday in Mandra during an event organized by the Hellenic-Ukrainian Chamber to honor the victims of the Soviet crime, known as Holodomor, when members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its youth wing (KNE) intervened and attacked attendees.

A three-member misdemeanor appeals court in Athens announced on Tuesday the conviction of three of the eight defendants charged in connection with the 2017 flash floods in Mandra, west of Athens, which claimed the lives of 25 people.

Their presence in the area was reported to the South Rhodes police station by a local government official. The construction of mobile phone antennas in border areas requires a special permit from the Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission (EETT), which the Turkish nationals did not have with them.

The fire burning in western Attica and Viotia for a fourth consecutive day kept reviving on Thursday, leading to more evacuations and more destruction of property.

Firefighting aircraft and ground crews from other countries headed to Greece on Thursday to help battle wildfires that have intensified as a heat wave baked much of southern Europe in temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).

Wednesday brought no respite to the hundreds of firefighters, volunteers, municipal workers and military personnel who spent all night battling major wildfires in West Attica and Corinthia - raging for a third day - and a new blaze on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes.

The wildfire raging in Dervenochoria, about 30 km north of Athens, is now threatening the town of Mandra (near Elefsina) and settlements around it, its mayor has said.

Christos Stathis, mayor of Mandra-Eidyllia, urged residents to evacuate as a precautionary measure in the face of the approaching fire front, which is estimated to be 20-kilometers long.

The residents of four parts of Dervenohoria in Viotia, northwest of Athens, were ordered to evacuate towards the West Attica town of Mandra on Tuesday as a wildfire started to approach homes and thick smoke filled the air.

Panorama, Pournari, Palaiohori and Agios Sotiras were being evacuated, as the blaze also crossed regional lines into Attica, heading towards Vilia and Oinoi.

Coast Guard authorities have arranged for the burial of two dolphins and a Caretta caretta turtle that were found dead earlier this week, reports said on Wednesday.

One of the dolphins was found off the coast of Karames in northwestern Sifnos and the other off Port Lagos, in northern Greece, on Tuesday morning.

An Athens prosecutor has brought charges against Attica Regional Governor Rena Dourou and another nine officials in connection with the flash floods in Mandra, western Attica, in November 2017 which resulted in the deaths of 25 people and the destruction of hundreds of properties.