An aerial view of cars stuck on a bridge surrounded by flood waters, as storm Daniel hits central Greece, in the village of Flamouli, near Trikala, Greece, September 7, 2023.
The investigation will also look into whether flood prevention measures taken by local authorities were adequate in the light of clear advance warnings by Greece's national meteorological service.
Nearly a week after Daniel, many villages across some 72,000 hectares were still swamped with muddy water in the Thessaly plain.
The EU Commission said on Tuesday that Greece could tap up to 2.25 billion euros in European funds to tackle the impact of the storm.
($1 = 0.9316 euros)Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Alex RichardsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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