Flood

A five-member committee of experts set up at the behest of New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis to determine the reasons for the scale of last week's fatal flash floods and to promote measures that would prevent a repeat of such a disaster is expected to submit a first initial report to the ND leader on Monday.

 Greek authorities said three more people have been found dead from a flash flood that hit a district west of Athens, raising the total death toll to 19. 

Greece's fire department says two more people have been reported missing after deadly flash flooding west of Athens that is confirmed to have killed at least 16 people, Ekathimerini writes.

The fire service said Friday it is now searching for a total of six people missing in the district of Mandra, on the western outskirts of the Greek capital.

Greece's fire service says rescue teams have recovered the body of a man who was reported missing after flash floods inundated the outskirts of Athens, bringing the death toll from the flooding to 16.

The man's body was found Thursday afternoon in the basement of a home in Nea Peramos, a coastal area west of Athens.

Residents of the western fringes of the Greek capital struggled Thursday to clean up the devastation caused by flash floods that killed at least 15 people, while rescue crews searched for five people who remained missing.

All schools of Western Attica will remain closed tomorrow due to the intense weather phenomena. The decision was reached by the competent vice chief of the region of Attica, Yiannis Vassiliou and was conveyed to the Primary and Secondary Education Department of western Attica.

The fire department in Greece said rescue teams are searching for six people whose disappearance has been reported due to heavy flash flooding near Athens.

At least 14 people died in the floods on Wednesday.

Rescue crews working through the night to locate six people reported missing in deadly flooding in western Attica on Wednesday have saved a man who was trapped in his car.

According to the fire service, the man was found near his home in Aghios Ioannis in the seaside town of Mandra.

The horror of the flood the residents of Mandra in western Attica experienced yesterday and cost the lives of 15 people and 6 missing, has returned with the waters rising after torrents of rain started falling on Thursday morning. Kotopouli street, the road that turned into a muddy river on which swept all in its path, was inundated with raging waters in a matter of only a few minutes.

The floods in Mandra, Attica in Greece have devastated the area in an unprecedented way.

The rods turned into rivers as the muddy waters stormed into the houses and the property of people.

But what makes the disaster so big is the 15 -so far…- people who have lost their lives, most of them in their houses that were at the road level or lower and in their cars.