A missing American tourist has been found dead on a beach on a small Greek island.
The man’s body was found on Sunday on a fairly remote rocky beach on the island of Mathraki, west of Corfu, by another tourist.
It is the latest in a series of recent cases in which tourists on Greek islands have died or disappeared. Some, if not all, had undertaken hikes in very warm temperatures.
The body of the American tourist was found on a beach
The disappearance of the American tourist was reported on Thursday by his host, a friend of Greek and American nationality. The man, found dead on a rocky beach on the island of Mathraki, was last seen last Tuesday in a bar in the company of two tourists who had in the meantime left the island.
No further details are known about the victim, neither his name nor his hometown have been disclosed by local authorities.
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The other cases of dead or missing tourists on the Greek islands
A day before the body of the American tourist was found, the body of a 74-year-old Dutch visitor was discovered.
It was the firefighters who found him: the man was spotted by a drone lying face down in a ravine, about 300 meters from the point where he was last observed last Sunday, walking with some difficulty under a suffocating heat.
Also this week, two French tourists were reported missing on Sikinos, a relatively isolated Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea with fewer than 400 permanent residents. The two women, aged 64 and 73, had left their respective hotels to meet, their traces have since been lost.
Also in the Cyclades, on the island of Amorgos, authorities are still looking for a 59-year-old tourist who has been missing since Tuesday, when he went on a solo excursion in very hot conditions. It would be an American citizen: the US media, in fact, identified the missing tourist as retired Los Angeles County deputy sheriff Albert Calibet of Hermosa Beach, California.
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Among the victims of the heat also a British television presenter
Among the victims of the scorching heat in Greece there would also be Dr. Michael Mosley, a well-known British television presenter and author, who was found dead last Sunday on the island of Symi where he was on holiday with his wife. A medical examiner concluded that he had died the previous Wednesday, shortly after hiking over difficult, rocky terrain.
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Greece has been hit by an unusually early heat wave
Tourists have been warned about high temperatures in Greece, which has been hit by an unusually early heat wave. The Acropolis in Athens and many other tourist spots were forced to close during the hottest hours this week, following reports of people fainting in line.
Temperatures have been rising all week, exceeding 40 degrees.
