ATHENS (AP) โ Greek authorities on Monday raised the death toll from heavy flooding near Athens this month to 23, after one more body was found and an injured woman died in hospital.
The Fire Brigade said the man's body was found buried in mud near a bus station in the small town of Mandra, west of Athens, which bore the brunt of the flash floods on November 15.
It was not immediately clear whether the victim was the person listed as missing after the floods, which also damaged about 1,000 buildings.
The Health Ministry also said Monday that an elderly woman who had been hospitalized with serious injuries as a result of the flooding died over the weekend.
Authorities have blamed the disaster - one of Greece's deadliest floods in decades - on poor urban planning and insufficient flood prevention measures, as much of the affected area had been built on filled torrent beds.
Torrents of water coming down from a nearby mountain turned roads into rivers of mud and debris in the modest working-class district of Mandra and nearby Nea Peramos, throwing cars into buildings, toppling walls and flooding a major highway.
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