Alexandroupoli

Three people were killed and seven injured, one critically, when the vehicle they were traveling in veered off course on the Egnatia Highway outside Alexandroupoli in northern Greece.

The victims are said to be undocumented migrants who were being smuggled into Greece in an Italian-registered car, according to authorities.

A long-distance KTEL bus was completely burned on Saturday evening when it was hit by lightning outside the village of Monastiraki, located near the Greek-Turkish border, in the regional unit of Evros.

According to local website e-evros.gr, the bus was travelling from Alexandroupolis to Orestiada when it was hit by a lightning bolt.

The crew of a Greek fishing boat on Thursday located and rescued 17 irregular migrants from a boat in the sea near the coast of Alexandroupolis, in northeastern Greece.

According to the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency, the migrants had already called for help through the 112 emergency number.

Greece's conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday urged Turkey to end the "illegal detention" of two Greek servicemen arrested in early May for straying into Turkish territory during a border patrol.

"[Turkey] must end the illegal detention of our two officers here and now," Mitsotakis said during a visit to the northern Greek city of Alexandroupoli.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has once more criticized the prolonged detention of two Greek soldiers who have been in a Turkish prison since early March, after accidentally crossing the border in bad weather.

Judicial authorities in northern Greece are investigating the involvement of local lawyers in rackets smuggling migrants and refugees across Greece's Evros River border from Turkey.

State sell-off fund TAIPED will be moving ahead within the year with the utilization of the port authorities of Alexandroupoli, Igoumenitsa and Corfu, in that order.

An extraordinary situation has been announced in part of northern Greece, due to the Maritsa and Arda rivers, the agencies said.

Under the threat of floods, a disaster situation has been announced across the Euros region - from Alexandroupolis to Orestiada.

The decomposed bodies of a man and a woman were found in a building in the abandoned village of Potamos in the region of Alexandroupoli, northeastern Greece, on Monday morning.

Manufacturing group Maillis on Thursday announced the closure of its plants at Alexandroupoli and in Italy, resulting in the loss of almost 100 jobs.

The shutdown of the two plants by the group controlled by US fund HIG is a part of its operating restructuring program aimed at the rationalization of production, the company's statement noted.