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  • Cliff collapse on Greece’s ‘shipwreck beach’ injures tourists

    Navagio beach, or Shipwreck Beach, following a rockfall on the island of Zakynthos, Greece, 13 September 2018 Image copyright Reuters Image caption “Shipwreck beach” on Zakynthos, or Zante, is one of the Ionian island’s main attractions

    At least seven people were injured when part of a cliff face broke away at the popular Navagio beach on the Greek island of Zakynthos, officials say.

    “We haven’t found any trapped people but we will continue searching,” a spokesperson for the fire brigade said.

    None of the injuries sustained in the incident on Thursday afternoon are believed to be life-threatening.

    The beach, also known as “shipwreck beach”, is popular with tourists and can be reached only by boat.

    “There was a noise and a small piece of rock fell, then a second bigger and finally a third big piece of rock that during the fall created a sea whirlpool that overturned the boats,” one eyewitness said.

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    Greek authorities said they had received no reports of missing people but that search and rescue teams were continuing to operate by air and sea into the late afternoon as a precaution.

    Among those injured was a 34-year-old woman from the Czech Republic, who suffered a fractured vertebra. Her husband and two children were also treated for minor injuries by hospital staff, according to the Greek news website Kathimerini.

    Three others were also hurt in the incident.

    Footage posted on social media showed people running in panic as a large section of the cliff peeled off and crashed down close to several bathers.

    The port of Zakynthos, which is also known as Zante in Western Europe, was evacuated as a precaution.

    It is one of the Ionian island’s main attractions, in part because of the shipwreck on the shore and also because of its surrounding steep cliffs.

  • Kerala floods: Rescue efforts step up as rains start to ease

    Rescuers with a rubber boat wade through waist-deep floodwaters in Aluva in the south Indian state of Kerala Image copyright Reuters Symbol caption Torrents of water have rushed via cities and villages in the southern Indian state of Kerala

    Rescue efforts are being stepped up within the flood-hit Indian state of Kerala, the place monsoon rains have eased for now.

    The India Meteorological Division has removed a red weather alert from all districts, even though a few areas are nonetheless under water.

    India’s air pressure and army helicopters are airlifting stranded other people from rooftops, and losing meals provides to those they can not but reach.

    more than 350 folks have died within the floods. Heaps remain marooned.

    Officials mentioned rescue groups are fascinated by the riverside the city of Chengannur, the place as many as 5,000 are feared to be trapped.

    Symbol copyright Reuters Image caption Folks stay up for rescue subsequent to makeshift raft

    Hundreds of government boats have been deployed across Kerala to help the rescue. The BBC’s Yogita Limaye, in Kerala, says the coastal state’s many fishermen are providing valuable beef up, the use of their own boats to assist the comfort venture.

    As of Saturday, cell operators are offering loose information and textual content messages for people in Kerala to help the ones in distress.

    Entire villages have been lost to landslides, and infantrymen are actually clearing the particles and development temporary bridges to assist repair transport hyperlinks.

    Image copyright Reuters Image caption Indian Navy soldiers are winching the stranded to protection from their rooftops

    Authorities are involved that aid camps that are sheltering the ones left homeless could be hit by means of a scourge of water-borne diseases, or different contagious illness. 3 people with chickenpox have reportedly been isolated at a camp within the the city of Aluva.

    In pictures: Kerala floods Thousands stranded in south India floods

    more than 2 HUNDRED,000 families have taken refuge within the camps, an legit on the Kerala State Crisis Control workplace stated.

    Symbol copyright Reuters Image caption This girl and her younger son were rescued from a flooded house of Aluva

    The state’s chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan tweeted on Friday that 314,391 other people were being housed in 2094 camps throughout Kerala.

    India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi surveyed the state from the air on Saturday, and has promised a aid fund of 5bn Indian rupees (£55m; $71m).

    Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw flood-hit spaces of Kerala from above