ATHENS (Reuters) – A 55-year-old American has been discovered lifeless on the Greek island of Mathraki, the police stated on Monday, the third vacationer demise in every week following a interval of unusually scorching climate.
Temperatures soared above 40 levels Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) earlier this month, simply as the vacation season started throughout Greece’s distant seashores, historical websites and mountain trails.
The early heatwave has coincided with a spate of disappearances and deaths of vacationers throughout the Mediterranean nation, highlighting the hazards of warmth publicity.
“There is a common pattern – they all went for a hike amid high temperatures,” Petros Vassilakis, the police spokesman for the Southern Aegean, informed Reuters.
The physique of British TV presenter Michael Mosley was discovered on the island of Symi on June 9, following a four-day search operation by plane, drones and boats. He had taken a stroll alone in excessive temperatures earlier than he disappeared.
Police didn’t share the id of the lifeless American, whose physique was discovered close to a seaside on Mathraki on Sunday. He was transferred to the island of Corfu the place an post-mortem might be carried out, a police official informed Reuters.
A 74-year-old Dutch vacationer was discovered lifeless on the island of Samos on Saturday and two hikers had been discovered lifeless on Crete on June 5.
Rescue groups had been additionally trying to find two French ladies, aged 73 and 64, on the island of Sikinos, and a 59-year-old U.S policeman on Amorgos.
“There are two search operations in progress on other islands. Police, firemen and volunteers have been deployed assisted by a drone and a rescue dog,” Vassilakis stated.
(Reporting Lefteris Papadimas and Renee Maltezou; Modifying by Edward McAllister and Sharon Singleton)
