{"id":74196,"date":"2024-06-16T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/deadly-toll-in-greece-as-heat-waves-sweep-the-country\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:50:06","slug":"deadly-toll-in-greece-as-heat-waves-sweep-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/deadly-toll-in-greece-as-heat-waves-sweep-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Toll in Greece as Heat Waves Sweep the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/14\/multimedia\/00greece-hfo-1-bvzf\/00greece-hfo-1-bvzf-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Deadly Toll in Greece as Heat Waves Sweep the Country\" title=\"Deadly Toll in Greece as Heat Waves Sweep the Country\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey went out for a walk yesterday in the heat,\u201d he said, \u201cand now we can\u2019t find them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Marakis, who was participating in the search, told Greek television on Saturday that a search for the two women had started on Friday, noting that one had her cellphone off and the other did not have it with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the women sent a text message to the owner of the room where she was staying at 8:24 a.m. Friday, saying, \u201cI\u2019ve fallen. I don\u2019t feel well,\u201d Mr. Marakis said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The body of Mr. Mosley, 67, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/06\/world\/europe\/michael-mosley-missing-greece-new.html\" title=\"\">the British medical journalist<\/a>, was found on June 9 on rocks next to a beach in Agia Marina, on the island of Symi, after a five-day search. He had been reported missing by his wife, Clare Bailey, a day after the couple arrived for a weeklong stay, according to the police spokeswoman. He had gone for a walk across what local officials described as \u201crugged terrain\u201d as temperatures on the island had been hovering around 95 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, an 80-year-old Belgian man who had been walking with a group died near the ancient site of Lato in eastern Crete, according to the police spokeswoman. Two other tourists \u2014 a 70-year-old Frenchwoman and a Dutch man, also 70 \u2014 also died early this month during treks in different parts of Crete, Ms. Dimoglidou said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the latest hot spell peaked on Wednesday and Thursday, the authorities closed many schools in Athens, and visiting hours were restricted at several ancient sites, including the Acropolis, Greece\u2019s most popular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Acropolis resumed regular visiting hours on Friday as temperatures dipped slightly, but restrictions remained in place for the ancient site of Knossos on Crete, where temperatures were forecast to reach 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 Fahrenheit. Sites on Crete would close from 1 to 5 p.m. if temperatures exceeded 40 Celsius, Greece\u2019s Culture Ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/16\/world\/europe\/greece-heat-wave-hikers.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey went out for a walk yesterday in the heat,\u201d he said, \u201cand now we can\u2019t find them.\u201d Mr. Marakis, who was participating in the search, told Greek television on Saturday that a search for the two women had started on Friday, noting that one had her cellphone off and the other did not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/14\/multimedia\/00greece-hfo-1-bvzf\/00greece-hfo-1-bvzf-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[643,11100,19361,1029,30964,11469,6897],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74198,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74196\/revisions\/74198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}