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One tourist dead, four injured in landslide on Santorini
May 23, 2011, 15:37 GMT
Athens - A US tourist was killed and another four people injured following a landslide on the Greek holiday island of Santorini, reports said Monday.
The incident occurred when the tourists were travelling by donkey in the picturesque harbour of Oia on Santorini.
Firefighters and rescue crews rushed to the scene to help the tourists after a landslide knocked them off their mules as they were travelling up the rocky cliff of the town.
The nationalities of the injured were not immediately known.
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