Greek PM under attack over handling of Storm Daniel disaster response

Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces biggest crisis yet as residents ask where money for ‘immediate’ flood relief has gone

The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is facing his biggest crisis yet as less than a week after rainstorms left vast tracts of the country’s central regions under water, his government is coming under attack for its handling of the disaster that has left 15 dead.

Health experts have described conditions in the flood-stricken Thessaly region – one of Greece’s richest agricultural areas – as ripe for the spread of infectious diseases after a summer of unprecedented heat-induced forest fires. Public health officials issued an urgent appeal on Monday for residents in the affected areas to only use bottled water for personal hygiene, drinking and cooking despite ongoing shortages.

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