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Widespread flooding in central Greece left at least six people dead, six missing and dozens trapped, with severe rainstorms feeding raging torrents that burst dams, washed away roads and bridges ...
More than 800 people have been rescued over the past two days from severe floods in Greece, local officials said, after extreme rainfall turned streets into deadly rivers, tore down buildings and ...
The death toll from severe flooding in central Greece rose to 10 people Friday, while another four remained missing, the country's civil protection minister said. Rescue crews in helicopters and ...
In October 2022, Crete, the largest island of Greece was hit by destructive floods. [1] The floods were triggered by a large thunderstorm and heavy rains. [2] Two fatalities were reported along with 150 millimetres (5.9 in) of rain falling within less 12 hours. [3]
The other was a 57-year-old woman who died after being swept away by the floods in another neighborhood, the private DHA news agency reported. The surging flood waters affected more than 1,750 ...
On 5 September, flooding in Thessaly, Greece, killed at least one person. [22] On the same day, the village of Zagora received 759 millimetres (29.9 in) of rain, 55 times more than the country's average rainfall for the same month. [23] Portaria also recorded a new rainfall record of 884 mm (34.8 in).
The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
Rain totals in southern Italy have not been as extreme as in Greece, but amounts of 1.15 inches (29.2 mm) have been observed across the higher terrain of Sila National Park.