Homes, businesses and roads in the Greek tourist island of Rhodes were covered in mud and debris on Monday after Storm Bora battered the country over the weekend. In the resort of Faliraki the flooding caused by torrential rains destroyed a bridge,

A lumbering low-pressure system over the central Mediterranean Sea has been dousing Greece in waves of torrential rainfall over recent days, a weather pattern reminiscent of one that wrought severe flooding in Spain in October.

Two men died in a flooded village on the island of Lenmos, while a male driver fell into a ditch as he tried to avoid debris in the northern region of Halkidiki.