Mediterranean hurricane leaves two dead and one missing in Greece | World

A woman was found dead in her flooded home in the city of Farsala, fire officials said.

In the nearby town of Karditsa, a man was also found dead at his workplace, an animal farm, according to state television Ert.

In Mouzaki, a neighboring town, a 40-year-old woman was reported missing after her car was driven down the Pamissos river, according to the same source.

The city of Karditsa, 300 km north of Athens and with a population of 113,000, was particularly affected in the early hours of Saturday by Hurricane Ianos, which caused torrents of mud, fallen trees and power and water cuts.

The water level rose one meter due to heavy rains, according to Deputy Mayor Konstantinos Noussios, quoted by Greek news agency ANA.

Many buildings, houses, shops and warehouses were destroyed, and today firefighters have had to rescue hundreds of people from their flooded homes.

The Mediterranean hurricane hit western Greece on Friday, especially the islands of the Ionian Sea, where torrential rains and violent gusts of wind occurred.

The islands of Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Corfu have suffered from floods, power outages and fallen trees.

A ship carrying 55 migrants sent a distress message off the southern coast of the Peloponnese on Friday, but the Greek Coast Guard was unable to rescue it.

Search efforts continued on Saturday, but “the ship may have changed direction” after seeing that it could not receive help, a Coast Guard official told AFP.