Zacharo

The 39-year-old driver of the truck that caused the deadly traffic accident on the National Road Pyrgos – Kyparissia, at the height of Elaia, was released early, after his plea, with the agreement of the investigator and the prosecutor.

From yesterday afternoon at 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. today, 44 fires have occurred, of which 33 were immediately treated at their initial stage, while firefighters are treating 11 more.

The epicentre is located 5 km north of Zacharo with a focal depth of 5 km

An earthquake rattled the regions of Ilias, Messinia and Arcadia in the Peloponnese at approximately 5 p.m. Monday.

According to the Earthquake Research-Institute of Geodynamics in Athens, the 3.7 magnitude quake had an epicenter five kilometers north of the town of Zacharo.

Cracks in buildings, collapsed old stone walls in Zacharo

Four people drowned in the Greek seas on Friday, the authorities said on Saturday.

Rescue workers pulled a 74-year-old man out of the water off the coast of Zacharo in the Ilia prefecture of the Peloponnese on Friday night.

Unconscious when he was put in an ambulance, the 74-year-old was declared dead on arrival at a local hospital.

The former mayor of Zacharo, a village in Ilia, in the Peloponnse, which was ravaged by fatal forest fires in 2007, has been arrested in Alimos, southern Athens, it emerged on Wednesday.

Pantazis Chronopoulos served as mayor of Zacharo from 2002 to late 2010, when the Interior Ministry ordered his suspension.

A Patra court on Tuesday sentenced each of the four defendants found guilty in the Ileia forest fires trial to ten years in prison. The blazes, which broke out in the Peloponnesian region in August 2007, claimed the lives of 36 people.

A Patra court on Tuesday found four out of five defendants facing charges over forest fires that broke out in Ileia in the Peloponnese in August 2007 guilty. The blazes claimed the lives of 36 people.

The Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) has arrested a 50-year-old nightclub owner on the Aegean island of Myconos on charges of tax evasion.

Authorities said that an inspection found that the business had failed to issue 11,225 euros’ worth of receipts to its customers.

The suspect was to face a prosecutor on the island of Syros.