Man found dead on Mathraki

An American tourist who had been reported missing was found dead on a beach on a Greek island on Sunday, officials said. He is the third person to die in the extremely hot temperatures in the Mediterranean country.

The man, whose identity has not yet been revealed, disappeared on the small island of Mathraki after being last seen on June 11, when temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius.

“There is a common pattern – they all went hiking in high temperatures,” Petros Vassilakis, police spokesman for the South Aegean, told Reuters.

A photo released by Enimerosi, a news channel based on the larger neighboring island of Corfu, shows rescue workers, including a forensic pathologist, gathered on a remote rocky beach where the man’s body was found.

According to a forensic pathologist who spoke to the news agency, there were signs that the man had drowned. He was taken to the island of Corfu where an autopsy will be performed, a police official told Reuters.

Mathraki is a 1.2-square-mile, heavily forested island off the west coast of Greece, just south of the border with Albania. The man’s body was found near the island’s old port, Enimerosi reported.

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Three more tourists missing in Greece

Sunday’s discovery on the island of Mathraki follows a series of missing persons and deaths in Greece, which has been hit by an extreme heatwave this month that forced authorities to close schools and the ancient Acropolis complex.

Since Monday, three more tourists have been reported missing. All were last seen on Greek islands.

Two French women were reported missing on Friday on Sikinos, an island off the southeast coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea. The women, aged 64 and 73, had planned to meet after leaving their respective hotels, the Associated Press reported.

On the nearby island of Amorgos, American Albert Calibet from California was reported missing on Tuesday, NBC News reported. The 59-year-old retired Los Angeles County deputy sheriff had been hiking alone in temperatures of over 38 degrees Celsius.

On Saturday, a 74-year-old Dutch tourist was found dead in a ravine on the island of Samos and on June 9, British television star Michael Mosley, 67, was found dead on the island of Symi.

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