Floods after heavy rain in Greece leave 3 dead, 1 missing

Published September 07, 2016

A man carries chairs while walking through the mud in Agia Triada village about 20 kilometers from the city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, after heavy overnight rain on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2916. Greek authorities said three people are dead and one is missing after the floods, which damaged homes and businesses in the southern Peloponnese region. AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) (The Associated Press)

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An elderly woman walks in the mud on a street of Agia Triada village about 20 kilometers far from the city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, after heavy overnight rain on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. Greek authorities said three people are dead and one is missing after the floods, which damaged homes and businesses in the southern Peloponnese region. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) (The Associated Press)

A car is abandoned in the sea in Agia Triada village about 20 kilometers from the city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, after heavy overnight rain on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. Greek authorities said three people are dead and one is missing after the floods, which damaged homes and businesses in the southern Peloponnese region _ where the deaths were recorded _ and near Thessaloniki. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) (The Associated Press)

Greek authorities say floods caused by heavy overnight rain have left three people dead in southern parts of the country.

The fire brigade says two women, aged 80 and 63, were found dead in their flooded basement homes in the city of Kalamata and its outskirts. A 90-year-old man also died in the Kalamata area, which is in the southern Peloponnese region.

In northern Greece, authorities are seeking a woman in her sixties who has been missing since early Wednesday after phoning her husband to say she was abandoning her flooded car.

The rainfall flooded homes and businesses in other parts of the southern Peloponnese, and in the outskirts of the northern city of Thessaloniki.

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