Tornadoes and Hailstorms killed Six Tourists in Greece
Hailstorms and violent Tornadoes killed six(6) tourists in northern Greece late Wednesday, police said.
Many more were injured when strong winds hit the region of Halkidiki, near the city of Thessaloniki, authorities added.
Footages showed overturned cars, fallen trees, torn roofs.
“Six tourists were killed and at least 30 people were injured during this cyclone,” Charalambos Steriadis, head of civil protection in northern Greece, said.
The freak storm lasted about 20 minutes, according to witnesses interviewed.
A Czech couple died when strong winds blew their caravan away while a Russian man and his son were killed by a falling tree, police said. Debris from a building killed a woman from Romania and her child. According to port police, a fisherman in his sixties was also missing.
The storms came after temperatures in Greece soared to 37 degrees centigrade (98 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past two days.
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