VOLOS, Greece Sept 28 (Reuters) - Torrential rain battered central Greece, flooding streets, homes and businesses in the port city of Volos and on the island of Evia, just three weeks after devastating Storm Daniel killed 16 people in the wider region.
"The private helicopter, an A-109 type, was en route to Volos city with at least one person on board," a civil aviation official told Reuters.
The storm hit Volos with rain so heavy that water levels in the city and its suburbs rose rapidly in a few hours.
[1/4]People try to make their way to an apartment block amid storm Elias in the city of Volos, Greece, September 28, 2023.
Storm Elias is the second major storm to hit the region since Daniel, the most intense storm to hit Greece since records began in 1930, battered the region for three days earlier in September.
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Storm Daniel, Storm Elias, Elias, Louisa Gouliamaki, Achilleas Beos, Daniel, Yannis Gavanoudis, Stamos Prousalis, Lefteris Papadimas, Renee Maltezou, Miral Fahmy, Ros Russell
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VOLOS, Greece, Volos, Evia, Athens, Karditsa, Larissa, Libya, Derna