{"id":13971,"date":"2019-07-11T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=13971"},"modified":"2019-07-11T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:39:44","slug":"a-greece-storm-has-killed-six-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/a-greece-storm-has-killed-six-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"A Greece storm has killed six tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Six tourists have died and 30 people injured in an aggressive storm which has swept across the region of northern Greece. Strong winds and hail it the Halkidiki region in Greece on Wednesday. The winds were so strong there were cars overturned, fallen trees, mudslides and broken roofs.\u00a0The storm only lasted around 20 minutes .<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the aftermath of the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/halkidiki?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#halkidiki<\/a> storm last night in nea plagia, so heart breaking <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/greece?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#greece<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C2bf5oMR8b\">pic.twitter.com\/C2bf5oMR8b<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 soph (@saysophcanfly) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saysophcanfly\/status\/1149246327144026114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Czech couple died when their caravan was blown away, two Romanians and two Russians were also killed. A mother and child were also killed after an outdoor restaurant\u2019s lean-to roof collapsed. A state of emergency was declared and more than 100 rescue workers were sent out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Athansios Kaltsas, director of the Nea Moudania Medical Centre, said:<\/strong> &#8220;It is the first time in my 25-year career that I have lived through something like this. It was so abrupt, and so sudden.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The storms comes after a spell of \u00a037C heat in Greece over the past two days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Greece&#8217;s minister for citizen protection, Michalis Chryssohoidis, is due to visit the region on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13975\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13975\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13975\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/107829734_greecehalikidiki976.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/107829734_greecehalikidiki976.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/107829734_greecehalikidiki976-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/107829734_greecehalikidiki976-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BBC \/ Location of the storm was Halkidiki<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI want to express my sorrow on behalf of all \u2026 We mourn for the loss of these souls,\u201d <strong>said the citizen protection minister, Michalis Chrisochoidis, overseeing operations in the area.<\/strong> \u201cWe are in solidarity with their relatives, with the people who have lost their families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the Port Police a fisherman in his 60s is missing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six tourists have died and 30 people injured in an aggressive storm which has swept across the region of northern Greece. Strong winds and hail it the Halkidiki region in Greece on Wednesday. The winds were so strong there were cars overturned, fallen trees, mudslides and broken roofs.\u00a0The storm only lasted around 20 minutes &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":13972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13977,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions\/13977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}