Pathology

The family of a Scottish woman who was found dead off the coast of Crete in 2009 has appealed for the probe into her death to be reopened on the basis of evidence that she may have been a victim of foul play and not of drowning, as the initial investigation had concluded.

Three coroners in Thessaloniki came to the unanimous decision on Friday that a woman who had been buried in the northern city on Thursday was dead when she was placed in her coffin despite the fact that passers-by and a cemetery employee heard a voice coming from her grave.

İlhan Söyler, one of daily Hürriyet’s most experienced sports journalists, lost his fight against cancer at the age of 66

Police in Megalopoli, in the Peloponnese, were on Monday investigating the exact circumstances of the death of a 42-year-old Public Power Corporation (PPC) worker who was electrocuted at the power board's local plant on Sunday afternoon.

A retired priest who had been missing for 22 days on Crete was found dead in a ravine in Iraklio on Saturday.

Father Emmanouil Lambrakis, 83, went missing on July 4 when he set off on foot from his village of Garipa with the aim of attending the unveiling of a new church in Arkalochori.

Members of the EMAK rescue team were called to help recover the priest’s body.

The body of an unidentified man has been found off southern Athens’s coast, authorities said on Monday.

The corpse was found off the Fleves islet near Vouliagmeni. It is that of a man 1.65 meters tall. He was wearing blue shorts, a blue t-shirt and silver-coloured sneakers.

A post-mortem is to be carried out to establish the cause of the man’s death.

A coroner is trying to determine the cause and time of death of a an elderly woman whose remains were found mummified in a large wooden trunk in her daughter’s apartment in the central Athens suburb of Pangrati on Thursday.

An investigation was launched on Friday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ilie Kareli, the 42-year-old Albanian inmate who killed a prison guard on Tuesday, after he was found dead in a prison cell and a coroner’s report indicated that he had suffered serious injuries after being beaten with a blunt instrument.