Another had been rescued shortly after the crash. Late Wednesday evening it turned out that the fourth inmate is also alive. The man swam ashore and was discovered there, the Greek coast guard said in the evening.
The helicopter was used to fight a large forest fire in the west of the island of Samos. The crew was apparently about to load fire-fighting water from the sea when the heli crashed for reasons not yet known. The pilot was rescued immediately, and two other occupants were found dead shortly thereafter. The crew is said to have been a Romanian, two Moldovans and a Greek translator.
Forest fire: Several villages evacuated
A large forest fire broke out on Samos on Wednesday afternoon, which could not be brought under control until the evening. Several towns were evacuated as a precaution. The fight with the flames continued into the night of Thursday.
On Samos and in many other areas of Greece, forest fires are currently occurring again and again due to the heat and drought. For Thursday, the fire brigade issued the second highest warning level for several islands in the East Aegean, but also for the Attica region around Athens and the large islands of Euboea and Crete. There is a “very high risk of forest fires,” it said. The day before, 35 forest fires had been registered across the country within 24 hours.
Localization: Samos is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea. The approximately 1.6 km wide Strait of Mykali separates the island from Turkey.
Source: Nachrichten
