Flash floods kill 15 in Greece

Flash floods caused by heavy rain in Greece killed at least 15 people in three rural towns west of the capital Athens on Wednesday.
The towns of Mandra, Nea Peramos and Megara are home to many factories and warehouses on the rural outskirts of the city.
Officials have compared the flooding overnight to a waterfall, coming down the mountains of the western Attica region.
“The situation is very difficult; the Niagara Falls came down and could not be stopped,” the deputy regional governor, Yiannis Vassileiou, told state-run TV network ERT.
The floods have been described by area mayors as the worst in 20 years.
“Everything is lost. The disaster is biblical,” Mandra Mayor Ioanna Kriekouki told ERT.

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