Storm Daniel pummelled Greece for three days from Tuesday at the end of the hottest summer.
ATHENS: Greek rescue teams recovered the bodies of four more people in central Greece on Sunday, raising the death toll to 15 from the country’s most intense rain storm since records began in 1930.
Homes and bridges collapsed, schools, roads and power poles were destroyed, animals drowned and crops in the fertile Thessaly plain were wiped out. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the main operation centre in Thessaly on Sunday evening and announced that a mix of financial relief measures would be offered to those hit by the storm.Mitsotakis will meet EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg on Tuesday. He said he wants to ensure Greece can get extra funds to tackle the impact of the storm, the extent of which he said “was beyond any prediction”.