Two people died on theGreek island of Limnosin the Aegean Sea, authorities said this Sunday.
The victims are a 57 year old farmer and a 70 year old man who died on Saturday on the island of Lemnos, near the Turkish coast, in the northeast of the Aegean Sea, according to Greek police.
The farmer died while trying to attach his car, stuck in mud, to his tractor to tow it, public television channel ERT said.
The septuagenarian fell on his head while cleaning the stairs of his house after the passage of the Storm Bora which has been hitting Greece since Saturday.
“Dozens of evacuation operations”
The latter causedsignificant damage on the island of Rhodesin the Dodecanese archipelago, particularly on the road network, homes and businesses, according to the regional governor of the South Aegean, Yiorgos Hadjimarkos.
“Rhodes, last night, was severely tested. Dozens of evacuation operations had to be carried out, in particularly difficult conditions”he said in a press release on Sunday.
The inhabitants of this tourist island also close to the Turkish coast received an alert message from the Civil Protection services ordering them to stay at home.
A driving ban on board vehicles has also been ordered while emergency services are “on high alert”according to the same source. Public television ERT broadcast images of flooded land and fields on Lemnos, an agricultural island.
Some 25 firefighters from Athens were sent as reinforcements on this island, according to firefighters, and 35 others on Rhodes.
Heavy snowfall
Greek weather services have warned that Storm Bora is expected to cause heavy snowfall in western Macedonia and mountainous areas of Epirus (northwest).
Civil Protection, in a warning sent to mobile phones, launched an alert message on Saturday due to the risk of heavy rain and strong winds in Central Macedonia (northeast), Thessaly (center) and Attica, the region surrounding Athens.
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