3 dead, 1 missing in Greece floods caused by heavy rains

Greece: Three people have been killed by floods caused by heavy rain overnight in southern Greece said Greek authorities on Wednesday.

Fire brigade said 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 flood in Kalamata area, which is in the southern Peloponnese region.

Authorities in northern Greece are searching for a woman in her sixties who has been missing since early Wednesday morning after phoning her husband to say she was abandoning her flooded car.

According to reports, the heavy rainfall flooded homes and businesses in other parts of the southern Peloponnese, and in the outskirts of the northern city of Thessaloniki.