Thrakomakedones

A man was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting incident midday Sunday in Thrakomakedones, a northern suburb of Athens, police have reported. 

Two gunmen approached the victims and fired shots from a short distance, according to the report. The injured man has been hospitalized, while both shooters remain at large. 

A 2.3 magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in Thrakomakedones was felt on the morning of Sunday, September 1st, in Athens.

The earthquake occurred at 08:08, with a focal depth of 9.5 km.

The epicenter was located 3 kilometers southwest of Thrakomakedones.

Valentini Papaioannou did not know what to expect as she returned to her home in Palaia Penteli, northeast of Athens, on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 13. Everything had happened so fast when she'd left it 30 hours earlier with her husband and their 2-year-old son, running away from a wildfire that had spread onto their street.

The board of the Public Employment Service (DYPA) is planning to create a modern shopping center in the facilities of the Olympic Village that have sat largely unused for almost 20 years.

Located north of Athens in Thrakomakedones, the complex contains more than 2,200 houses and 10,000 residents.

 wildfire raged uncontrolled north of Athens on Tuesday (3 August), burning homes and forcing authorities to order more evacuations as they grappled with 81 forest fires during Greece's worst heatwave in over 30 years.

A total of 134 asylum seekers who were evicted from occupied buildings in Exarchia in downtown Athens, on Monday are to be moved to state reception facilities in the coming days.

The 134 - chiefly families from Afghanistan and Iraq - have been staying in a hotel in Thrakomakedones, eastern Attica, since their eviction. Another nine economic migrants face deportation.

A 79-year-old man was arrested on Monday in Thrakomakedones in eastern Attica for the murder of his 72-year-old wife with a cleaver.

The man was reportedly arrested after he called police and confessed to murdering his wife in their home on Amyntas Street after an altercation.
 

Following heavy snowfall and icy conditions across the region of Attica, several municipalities announced that schools in their areas would remain closed on Thursday.

Schools in the areas of Thrakomakedones, Varibobi, Kifissia, Vrilissia and Penteli, northern Attica, were closed on Thursday.

 Islanders left without power, water as bad weather knocks out infrastructure

The Cycladic island of Tinos faces a third difficult day Friday after heavy snowfall disabled much of its infrastructure as well as isolating several villages, prompting the General Secretariat for Civil Protection to declare a state of emergency there Thursday.

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.