Forensic science

A forensic report on a 33-year-old LGBTQ activist and performer who died last Friday after being beaten for allegedly trying to rob a jewelry store in central Athens was inconclusive as to the precise cause of death.

A 10-year-old child died in Kyustendil after a ridiculous accident last night. The boy was found in an elevator in Block 3A of the West neighborhood in the city, pressed by his bicycle.

Forensic investigators and researchers awaited access Sept. 3 to the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, gutted in a fire, to find out how the blaze began and what remains of the 20 million artifacts that made the museum one of the most important in Latin America.

The body of a teenage Italian tourist who disappeared in the sea after diving off a cliff on the Aegean island of Antiparos on Sunday afternoon was found on Monday morning by the local coast guard.

According to reports, sea conditions were rough when the 17-year-old took the plunge.

The badly decomposed remains of a man were recovered on Sunday from the eastern coast of the island of Evia.

The coast guard retrieved the body from a steep, rocky shore after being alerted to its presence.

The remains have been transferred to the department of forensic medicine and toxicology at the University of Athens, where an autopsy will be conducted.

Police on Rhodes on Thursday launched an investigation to identify a human skeleton found in a park on the outskirts of the southeastern Aegean island's capital by a passer-by.

Forensics experts were examining the remains amid indications that they could be those of a foreign national reported missing in 2014.

A coroner was to determine the cause of death.

A new body recovered in the sea off the southern coast of Athens on Tuesday reportedly bears burn marks, according to information.

The coast guard said on Tuesday the body was found floating by an amateur fisherman who immediately alerted authorities.

The fire service clarified in a press release the body belongs to a woman and not a man, as was initially reported.

A French skier who disappeared in Italy more than 60 years ago has been identified after his story was shared on social media, Italian police say.

Human remains, ski equipment and glasses had been found in 2005, high in a valley in Italy's Aosta region.

But investigators were unable to identify the victim, and, last month, shared their findings on Facebook.

A 13-year-old boy that had gone missing in the coastal town of Mati since Monday's deadly blaze was identified among the victims, according to an announcement by the Smile of the Child (Hamogelo tou Paidiou) charity on Saturday.

A 42-year-old woman who was in intensive care after suffering extensive burns in the deadly wildfire that ripped through the coastal town of Mati in east Attica this week died early Saturday morning, raising the number of fatalities to 88.