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Students Trapped in White Tower as Hailstorm Hits Thessaloniki (video)


Students and tourists were trapped inside the White Tower as hailstorm and flash flooding hit Thessaloniki, paralyzing the city on Thursday.
Twenty-four students from the high school of Argalasti, Volos and 10 tourists from Britain were trapped in the White Tower for four hours, due to flooding in the surrounding area. Eventually, they were removed with the help of firefighters.

Local sites report that the storm that struck on Thursday lunchtime and created huge problems.

Many ground-floor and basement shops and houses were flooded during the downpour, which turned roads into rivers and flooded the city’s landmark White Tower on the seafront, as well as the basements of Thessaloniki City Hall.
The city also experienced power cuts due to the thunderstorm, while lightning falling on the city’s Macedonia International Airport caused the authorities to stop the refuelling of planes as a safety precaution.
The airport has now resumed normal functioning, Fraport Greece spokesman Yiannis Papazoglou told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.




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