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The hundreds of thousands of dead fish that flooded the Pagasetic Gulf off the eastern coast of mainland Greece in recent days died of natural causes and not of poisoning by an industrial effluent or some other toxin, an Environment Ministry official said on Saturday.

An operation has begun to remove the hundreds and thousands of dead fish from Lake Karla and the Pagasetic Gulf in Volos, central Greece.

The Karla storm barrier, because of which water and in recent weeks tons of fish have been flowing into the Pagasitikos Gulf, could not be closed, according to a multi-page conclusion of the Volos Prosecutor’s Office, which had ordered and completed a preliminary investigation as early as last February.

 Supreme Court prosecutor Georgia Adelini on Thursday ordered a preliminary investigation into the mass fish deaths in Lake Karla and Pagasitikos Gulf in Volos, central Greece.

According to Adelini's order, the investigation aims to determine why the dam gate leading from Lake Karla into Pagasitikos Gulf was left open and to identify who made this decision.

A drone captured images depicting the massive ecological disaster, with a multitude of dead fish trapped in the Xirias stream, caught in the net placed there for the protection of the Pagasitikos Gulf.

An urgent investigation into the dead fish in the Pagasitikos has been ordered by the prosecutor of the Supreme Court Georgia Adilini.

The prosecutor in a letter to the head of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Volos Prosecutor’s Office asks to investigate any criminal responsibility for the situation that has been created

"As long as the Common Agricultural Policy does not change, no country will be able to absorb 100% of the resources it is entitled to," Rural Development and Food Minister Lefteris Avgenakis said in an interview with Skai radio station on Wednesday.

A meeting with the Prime Minister asked, earlier, in a letter, farmers from the villages of Karla - Tuesday has been scheduled meeting of representatives from all the blockades in order to decide whether and how to escalate the mobilisations

SAN SALVADOR: A Salvadoran journalist reported missing Sunday has been found dead on the side of a road, according to media reports.

According to media reports, the body of Karla Turcios, 33, was found on a highway on the outskirts of Santa Rosa Guachipilin, 100 kilometres northeast of San Salvador.