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The Athens Traffic Police said on Monday it registered 60 safety and traffic violations by 316 school buses on the first day of the academic year.

Fines were handed to drivers for violations ranging from faulty tachographs, violating the speed limit, not wearing a seatbelt, worn-out tires and others.

Famous Greek singer Pantelis Pantelidis died on February 18 when his car crashed on the road barriers at Vouliagmeni Avenue.

According to expert witnesses, the car Pantelidis was driving was in excellent condition and there was no problem with the brakes or the accelerator, while the tires were also in very good condition.

A bus owned by the Nis Ekspres company burned down completely after midday on Tuesday on a highway near Leskovac, in southern Serbia.

The fire was caused by one of the vehicle's tires exploding, the Beta agency is reporting, adding that nobody was injured in the accident.

A driver of a crane died after entering a military site by driving over its barriers and falling into a large ditch as soldiers shot at the vehicle's tires to stop him in Turkey's Aegean province of Mu?la.

The owner of a gas station in the town of Edipsos on Evia on Tuesday confirmed reports regarding two incidents involving Parliament Speaker Zoe Constantopoulou over the Greek Orthodox Easter weekend.

According to reports in local media, Constantopoulou visited the gas station on Sunday and demanded that one of her vehicle?s tires be replaced.

At first it sounded like an April Fool’s Day news story, or at worst, a politically motivated smear campaign against the outspoken Parliament president Zoi Konstantopoulou.

The snow that fell on Friday caused disruptions to traffic in several Bulgarian regions, which necessitated the introduction of temporary measures and limitations.

According to the forecast, snow is to continue to fall in most of the northern regions, while rain is expected in the southeast on Saturday, but precipitations are to decrease as of midday.

Police in northwestern Greece had their easiest ever arrest late on Friday when the tire on a truck passing in front of them burst, causing large packages of cannabis that had been hidden in the vehicle to be spilt onto the road.

The accident happened on the old Ioannina-Trikala national road.