greece news – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com Impart Educate Propel Tue, 24 Jul 2018 06:23:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 https://nepalireporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-RN_Logo-32x32.png greece news – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com 32 32 Twin wildfires near Athens kill 24, gut vacation resorts https://nepalireporter.com/2018/07/248763 https://nepalireporter.com/2018/07/248763#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2018 06:22:51 +0000 https://nepalireporter.com/?p=248763 GreeceGREECE, July 24: Twin wildfires fanned by gale force winds tore through holiday resorts near Greece’s capital, killing at least 24 people by early Tuesday and injuring more than 100, including 11 in serious condition, in the country’s deadliest fire season in more than a decade. There were fears the death toll would rise significantly. […]]]> Greece

GREECE, July 24: Twin wildfires fanned by gale force winds tore through holiday resorts near Greece’s capital, killing at least 24 people by early Tuesday and injuring more than 100, including 11 in serious condition, in the country’s deadliest fire season in more than a decade.

There were fears the death toll would rise significantly. Rescue crews working through the charred areas of where the fire had passed through to the northeast of Athens told local media that at first light, they had found the bodies of more than 20 people gathered in one place near a beach.

Greek health authorities could not immediately confirm the increase in the death toll as the bodies had not yet reached hospitals. AP

]]> https://nepalireporter.com/2018/07/248763/feed 0 Last jailed member of Greek dictatorship is dead https://nepalireporter.com/2013/01/6476 https://nepalireporter.com/2013/01/6476#respond Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:55:55 +0000 http://nepalireporter.com/?p=6476 ATHENS: Nikolaos Dertilis, the last jailed member of the military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967-74, has died. He was 94.
Dertilis had been transferred in December from the maximum security Korydallos Prison, where he had spent the past 38 years, to Athens’ Erythros Stavros Hospital with heart problems after suffering a stroke. He died Monday, the hospital said.
As a colonel, Dertilis was among a group of middle-ranking officers who seized power in a bloodless coup on April 21 1967. The dictators imposed martial law and cracked down heavily on political opponents, imprisoning or exiling thousands of mostly left-wing supporters, many of whom were tortured by military police.

After the restoration of democracy, Dertilis was sentenced to life in prison for the execution of a youth during the bloody suppression of a student uprising in 1973.

He never repented for his acts and refused to request clemency — even to attend his son’s funeral last year.
The country’s extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, which rose from the political fringes to enter Parliament last year, issued a statement saluting Dertilis as “an exceptional Greek and a soldier who shed his blood for his country on the battlefields.”

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