Homes have been swept away and streets deluged in water as Storm Daniel brings torrential rain to southeast Europe.
A Briton trapped in his holiday apartment on a Greek island during a 14-hour lightning storm as Storm Daniel brought torrential rain and turned the resort into a"warzone".- including two holidaymakers who were swept away by a torrent that raged through a campsite.
On Skiathos, hundreds of tourists are stranded at the airport - and footage posted on social media showed water pouring through the streets. Colin Barratt, speaking to Sky News from the village of Troulos on the island, said the last 48 hours have been intense as he and his fiancee were stuck in their top-floor apartment as rivers of rain poured past either side of the building.
They were woken up around 1am on Tuesday"almighty bangs and flashes of lightning" and thought it was like any other storm, but as the hours went on they realised this was something different.Mr Barratt, from Leeds, described how the sound of thunder would fade away as the storm moved away towards the sea - and then reappear behind them, again and again.
He said they felt exposed during the 14-hour onslaught of lightning strikes - without even five seconds' pause - given they were so high up on a hill, as trees collapsed near their building.
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