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Incalculable damage from storm in Crete: Anogeia under water, Zoniana cut off, 101 people rescued

Anogeia is flooded and Zoniana cut off after the storm in Crete, with 101 people rescued and tonnes of crops lost on the Lasithi Plateau. A government delegation will visit the affected areas tomorrow to assess the damage

Farmland swamped by mud on Lasithi Plateau, while 2,500 residents of Mylopotamos are left without water

Torrential rain has left Cretan farmland buried in mud, with losses of over 80% reported on the Lasithi Plateau, while around 30 people were evacuated in Zoniana and 2,500 residents of Mylopotamos are without water

Huge new wave of floods slam Crete as emergency alert is issued across the island

Torrents burst through the village of Zoniana again, ferries remain docked at Piraeus and the Lasithi Plateau has lost almost 3,000 tonnes of crops, with heavy rain forecast into the weekend and strong northerly gales across the Aegean

Farmer dies as storm batters Crete: Homes flooded, vehicles submerged as Rethymno, Heraklion and Ag. Nikolaos

The 112 messages urge people to avoid travel. Intense weather is expected to continue until Sunday morning. Ferry ban in force from Rafina and Lavrio

Future generations won’t be burdened with debt, and dialogue with Turkey isn’t submission, PM writes in Sunday review

Kyriakos Mitsotakis used his first post-summer address to detail a €13bn early debt repayment, confirm the Greece-Cyprus interconnection deal with France's Meridiam and Nexans, and pledge continued support for wildfire-hit communities across Greece this month

Earthquake of 6.1 richter off the coast of Crete – Felt as far as Attica

The epicenter of the earthquake was in the sea area north of Neapoli, Lasithi – Felt as far as Cyprus – What Lekkas, Tselentis, and Gkanas say about the tremor

Lasithi: A cattle farmer discovered a skeleton belonging to a man who had been missing for 12 years

A police ID card belonging to the 57-year-old Bulgarian man who was reported missing in 2012 was found in his clothes

Bloody incident over pastures in Lasithi – Two injured

A 69-year-old man and a 35-year-old man argued over pasture boundaries

Family tragedy in Lasithi, he accidentally shot and killed his brother-in-law at a local festival

It all happened during a local festival in the area of Katharo - The two relatives had consumed a large amount of alcohol and at some point began firing gunshots

Your Guide to Lasithi

Beautiful beaches crowd the shoreline, some with an exotic tropical atmosphere like Vai, others like Xerokampos rival the Indian Ocean for white sands & turquoise seas

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