Voula

A 15-year-old girl was hit by a speeding car in the southern Athenian suburb of Voula on Thursday morning, state-run broadcaster ERT reported.

According to the report, the girl was crossing the street at the junction between Vouliagmenis Avenue and Agiou Ioannou Street at 8.30 a.m. when the car struck her. ERT said the 59-year-old female driver appears to have run a red light. 

The fiery front that started yesterday from Pournari in Glyfada and has spread due to the strong winds towards Panorama Voulas and Vari is in recession.

With the first light of day, aircraft and helicopters entered the battle of extinguishing the fires, in an effort to prevent a resurgence.

Residents of the areas of Vari and Voula will be in a state of emergency all night as a fire that raged for over eight hours throughout the day and into the night and appears to be receding.

It destroyed four homes in Voula and damaged about 20 houses. Automobiles also went up in flames.

As daytime temperatures start to rise and lockdown fatigue sets in, the government and local officials at seaside Attica municipalities are seeking ways to discourage citizens from flocking to the capital's beaches and coastal promenades for their daily constitutionals.

Three patients have died since the last government update on the course of the coronavirus epidemic in Greece on Thursday evening, bringing the total toll to 89.

Overnight, a 79-year-old man died at the AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, and an 86-year-old woman succumbed to the virus at the capital's Attikon Hospital.

Fourteen Greek police officers were in quarantine on Monday following an incident with a 26-year-old man who was arrested was on Sunday night in Voula, south of Athens, shouting that he is infected with coronavirus, breaking car mirrors and also allegedly spitting at officers. 

The Hellenic Recycling Agency (HRA) is preparing a guide for the 66 municipalities in Attica in a bid to reduce the wide discrepancies between them in terms of waste recycling rates.

Officers were called in to intervene after a scuffle between two elderly women in the southern suburb of Alimos on Friday left one injured.
Police who arrived at the scene were told an 81-year-old woman beat up a 95-year-old, causing her light injuries to her head and body.

Police authorities in Bulgaria said Tuesday that they had arrested the brother of the 31-year-old Bulgarian charged with murdering 46-year-old Greek-Australian businessman Yiannis Makris in the southern Athenian suburb of Voula in October last year.
According to reports, the 35-year-old was arrested on Friday in the town of Haskovo, southern Bulgaria on a European arrest warrant.

Three Greek nationals aged 46, 36 and 40 appeared before an investigative magistrate on Monday in connection to more than 15 robberies and thefts in the region of Attica.
According to the authorities, the three men had set up a criminal gang since December 2018.