Five tourists killed in violent Greek hail storms: police

Falling trees and other debris prove dead as storm sweeps through European country

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Thessaloniki: Violent hail storms killed at least five tourists in northern Greece late Wednesday, police said.

A Czech couple died when strong winds blew their caravan away while a Russian man and his son were killed by a falling tree, they said.

Debris from a building killed a woman from Romania.

Public television said there was possibly another victim of the storms which ripped through the region of Khalkidiki near the city of Thessaloniki.

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