Daily Times

Hundreds of people were rescued from floods in Greece overnight and early on Thursday, officials said, as a new storm hit the country just weeks after floods left 17 dead.

The fire service said it had assisted over 250 people in the region surrounding the central city of Volos, where a curfew was declared Wednesday as Storm Elias made landfall. The storm also hit the island of Evia, prompting emergency traffic restrictions in the north of the island. Much of Volos was without electricity and sections of the local hospital flooded, though the facility remained operational. Elias is expected to abate on Friday. Volos, a city of nearly 140,000, was still struggling to recover from Storm Daniel, which three weeks ago dumped cataclysmic amounts of rain in central Greece. Volos was without drinking water for over two weeks earlier this month, and the damage to the local utility network has still not been fully repaired.

Storm Daniel left 17 dead, destroyed crops, and killed tens of thousands of farm animals across a wide area in the heart of Greece’s agricultural production.