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The mystery of the disappearance of tourists on the Greek islands, what the police suspect
2024-06-17 20:56:51 / BOTA
Search operations for three missing tourists on two Greek islands have intensified after police said two holidaymakers were found dead on other islands over the weekend.
Rescue teams backed by sniffer dogs, helicopters and drones have been searching the Cycladic islands of Sikinos and Amorgos for two French women and an American man who went missing last week.
Describing the search effort as "relentless", the mayor of Sikinos, Vassilis Marakis, said emergency services had spent Monday focusing on the rocky terrain in which the two female climbers may have been lost.
"We've been out all morning searching," Marakis said. "Volunteers have arrived from Santorini, firefighters, police, a specially trained dog have all searched, but the terrain is rocky and full of valleys. The effort has been great, but the area where they disappeared is difficult and, unfortunately, we still haven't found them."
In the space of nine days, six holidaymakers, including British TV presenter and nutritionist Michael Mosley, have either died or gone missing on the Greek islands.
Mosley, 67, is believed to have died within hours of going for a walk during which he took a wrong turn and ended up climbing a rocky peninsula on Symi, another remote Aegean island.
On Saturday, Greek search teams announced that the body of a 74-year-old Dutch man missing for nearly a week had been found by a fire service drone in a gorge on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, off the Turkish coast. He had also gone out for a walk in the hot weather.
Hours later, on Sunday, police announced that a 70-year-old American tourist who had been missing since Thursday on the island of Mathraki, west of Corfu, had been found dead on a remote beach.
On Amorgos, the easternmost island in the Cyclades chain, the search for retired Los Angeles police officer Albert Calibet continued for a sixth day on Monday without success.
The 59-year-old former sheriff, a regular visitor to Amorgos, disappeared after setting off alone for a four-hour hike on a day when temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius.
The mayor of Sikinos said the two French tourists, aged 73 and 64, had set out on a walk when the Aegean island was experiencing a period of "extremely hot" June weather.
"It was extremely hot on Friday, the day they disappeared," he said. "We had heard of such incidents happening on other islands and now it has happened here. Yesterday, we also had a Coast Guard boat patrolling the coast of our island. I do not hide that I am very worried."
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