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A rockfall triggered by a rainstorm kills a woman hiker in Greece

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a rockfall triggered by a sudden rainstorm has fatally injured a hiker in a popular national park on the island of Crete. The accident occurred in the Samaria Gorge of western Crete. The victim has been identified by state-run ERT television as a 33-year-old Ukrainian woman. Nobody else was hurt. About 1,000 people were in the roughly 10-mile-long gorge at the time of the accident.

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