STORY: Two people died in Greece on Wednesday (January 21) after torrential rain flooded streets, homes and businesses in Athens and other parts of the country, authorities said.

A woman died after being hit by a car that was carried away in flash floods in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada, a fire brigade official told Reuters. The southern suburb was one of the worst hit by the floodwaters, burying cars and entering homes.

The fire brigade received hundreds of calls to pump water out of flooded buildings in Athens. The rainstorm was expected to move to the eastern part of the country on Thursday.

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VIDEO SHOWS: STREETS IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOODS FLOODED, WATER CASCADING, TOPPLED CARS BURIED IN ROCKS AND DEBRIS THROWN BY CURRENT ONTO STREETS, RESIDENTS COMMENTING

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SHOWS: ATHENS, GREECE (JANUARY 21, 2026)(REUTERS – Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

1. VARIOUS OF FLOODWATER CASCADING DOWN STREETS

2. VARIOUS OF CAR CARRIED BY CURRENTS CRASHED

3. RESIDENTS ON THE STREET

4. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT, IRO THEOFILOPOULOU, 57, SAYING:

“From what we know, the woman came out of her house, she lives nearby, she tried to cross the street, probably she had somewhere to go, she may have had her children somewhere, a car was dragged by the water, she was dragged by the water and got caught under the car and she died.”

5. VARIOUS OF FLOODWATER CASCADING DOWN STREET

6. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT, IRO THEOFILOPOULOU, 57, SAYING:

“Every time it rains this happens here on this street, and not only this street there are various areas in Glyfada and Ano Glyfada where there are currents and we cannot move around.”

7. PUDDLE OF RAINWATER, CARS, CEMENT AND ROCKS THAT HAVE BEEN TOSSED BY CURRENTS

8. VARIOUS BULLDOZER CLEARING ROCKS TOSSED BY CURRENTS, CAR TOSSED BY FLOODWATERS

9. WATER AND ROCKS RUNNING DOWN STREET

10. FIRE DEPARTMENT VEHICLE DRIVING IN STREET

11. MAN WALKING THROUGH FLOODED STREET

12. RESIDENTS TRYING TO PUSH AWAY ROCKS AND DEBRIS BROUGHT BY FLOODWATERS, CURRENTS STREAMING DOWN STREET

13. STREET COMPLETELY FILLED WITH CEMENT, DIRT, DEBRIS AND STONES BROUGHT BY FLOODWATERS

14. CARS BURIED

15. VARIOUS OF RESIDENT, PETROS MOUSTOS, TRYING TO DIG OUT HIS CAR

16. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT, PETROS MOUSTOS, SAYING:

“The rainstorm came and water started coming down, and then it brought down the hillside. There was no time to do anything, to save anything. At least I saved the house because I live on the ground floor, now I have to see what I am going to do about the car. In the 20 years that I am here, since 1974, this is the third time.”

17. VARIOUS OF RESIDENT SWEEPING AWAY MUD

18. DIRT AND ROCKS CARRIED BY FLOODWATERS ON STREET, WATER CASCADING

19. VARIOUS OF CARS BURIED IN MUD AND DIRT