Kapandriti

A 58-year-old woman died in the early hours of Monday in eastern Attica after she was hit by a truck that was rushing to assist in the firefighting effort in the area.

The incident occurred in the center of the village of Kapandriti, which the woman, accompanied by her three-year-old niece, was attempting to drive through amid a traffic jam of cars and fire tenders.

More than 12,000 lightning strikes were recorded across the country by midday Thursday, according to the National Observatory of Athens' Zeus lightning detection network. Forecasts for bad weather with intense lightning activity had been made since the beginning of the week.

The fire in Varybobi caused a catastrophe in Northern Evia. The salvation of Ancient Olympia led to the uncontrolled resurgence in Varybobi, the difficult containment of which increased the destruction in the Municipalities of Mantoudi and Istiaia. And the effort to reduce the burning areas in Limni, Kapandriti, and Gortynia increased the line of fire in Gythio and Melpeia, in Messinia.

Bags of road salt piled up next to some winter service vehicles on the premises of the road maintenance department of the Attica Regional Authority in Kapandriti, north of the capital, during an inspection by Regional Governor Giorgos Patoulis Thursday.

Greece's leftist-led government said on Friday that it was moving ahead with plans to knock down scores of illegal buildings in the wider Athens region.

A moving picture of a Greek firefighter rescuing baby birds from a burning tree during a forest fire near Kapandriti north of Athens, Aug. 15, 2017 has gone viral for a good reason.

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Seven robbers tied up a security guard and threatened three workers at a dairy plant north of Athens in the early hours of Tuesday during a botched heist.

Snowfall and low temperatures have returned to Athens on Wednesday, as a new wave of adverse weather conditions has hit the country.

Dozens of schools around the Greek capital did not open for the first day back after the Christmas break on Thursday due to the cold weather than has lashed the country for the past two weeks.

Two employees of the Attica Regional Authority were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly accepting bribes.

The two men, responsible for hygiene checks on bars and eateries, were arrested after accepting marked banknotes from the owner of an establishment in Kapandriti, northern Attica.

Authorities did not give further details.