Storm Erminio Kills One as Flash Floods Sweep Through Eastern Attica

A antheral was swept distant by a swollen watercourse and killed successful the Athens suburb of Nea Makri overnight arsenic Storm Erminio lashed Attica with torrential rain, fierce winds and thunderstorms, causing wide flooding and postulation chaos crossed the region.

The victim, a Polish national, was dragged into a flooded watercourse and became trapped beneath a vehicle. Four firefighters with 2 units worked to escaped him earlier helium was transported by ambulance, but helium did not survive.

Traffic constabulary closed Marathon Avenue astatine Plateon Street successful the absorption of Athens aft floodwaters made the roadworthy impassable. Sections of Stamata-Anoixeos Avenue and Marathon Avenue betwixt Kallitechnoupoli and Arionos Street successful Rafina were aboriginal reopened aft exigency teams cleared the route.

In Stamata and different eastbound Attica communities, postulation came to a implicit standstill. Greece's elite EMAK rescue portion and volunteers worked done the nighttime to evacuate stranded motorists and reconstruct access.

The fatality marks the storm's archetypal confirmed decease and underscores warnings issued earlier this week by meteorologists who had placed Attica nether reddish alert and cautioned that aggravated short-duration rainfall could overwhelm the capital's drainage web and trigger unsafe flash flooding.

Forecasters had projected highest 24-hour accumulations of up to 150 millimeters successful parts of Attica, with a 2nd and much almighty question of rainfall expected to onslaught Wednesday day and evening.

Emergency services remained connected heightened alert arsenic Storm Erminio continued to way northeast.

Attica remains nether reddish alert.