Agioi Theodoroi

A 47-year-old man arrested Monday on the Athens-Patra highway, near the junction for Aghioi Theodoroi, near Corinth, was found to be carrying a television stuffed with more than 15 kilos of heroin.

The 85-year-old man accused of killing his 58-year-old son son on Saturday in the area of Aghioi Theodoroi on the island of Crete has been given until Tuesday to prepare his defense in court. According to reports on Monday, the accused man appears mentally confused and social workers have requested a psychological evaluation.

A woman takes a break from the heat under the shade of a tree in central Athens on Friday as Greece struggled with the summer's first heat wave. The National Observatory of Athens said the highest temperatures yesterday at 3 p.m.

Arson investigators on Monday arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly starting a fire in the seaside town of Aghioi Theodoroi, between Athens and Corinth, in which one person was killed and two injured.

According to initial reports, the 28-year-old is a famer who had been burning dead brush near a greenhouse when he lost control of the fire at around 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.

Firefighters in the seaside town of Aghioi Theodoroi, between Athens and Corinth, were able on Monday to bring under control a large fire that already claimed one life, as rescue workers continued to search for a missing woman.

Greece's fire department says that one person has died after a wildfire broke out west of Athens on Sunday.

A body was found in a ravine outside the town of Aghioi Theodoroi, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Athens.

Firefighters were tested on Monday as winds and high temperatures fanned three large blazes in Epidaurus and Mani in the Peloponnese, and Corinth, south of Athens.

The Epidaurus fire broke out near the 12th-century Monastery of Agnountos and took 22 firefighters and nine fire engines to be brought under partial control later Monday.